sigma

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sigma

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experimental gismu

creator

krtisfranks

time entered

Thu Jun 18 07:35:49 2015  

English

Definition #66511 - Preferred

 

definition

x₁ is the standard variation of/in data set/distribution x₂; x₁ is the quantified (in)accuracy of the results x₂ given by some observation or measurement (procedure), calculated from/by standard x₃

notes

Technically, there really is only one possible standard deviation, but in practice, it is often approximate via some means x3 (such as assuming that the distribution is Gaussian, even if it actually is only a finite data sample x2).

gloss words

• standard deviation

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krtisfranks

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time

Thu Jun 18 07:38:59 2015

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