Standard deviation of a population Mean and standard deviation versus median and IQR Concept check: Standard deviation Statistics: Alternate variance formulas

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Introduction The questions below are designed to help you think deeply about standard deviation and its formula. Unlike most questions on Khan Academy, some of these questions aren't graded by a …

The formula we use for standard deviation depends on whether the data is being considered a population of its own, or the data is a sample representing a larger population.

The population standard deviation is a measure of how much variation there is among individual data points in a population. It's a way of quantifying how spread out the data is from its mean.

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Mean absolute deviation The mean absolute deviation of a dataset is the average distance between each data point and the mean. It gives us an idea about the variability in a dataset. Here's how to …

We learn how to calculate the mean and standard deviation of a discrete random variable. The concept of a random variable is explained, along with methods to calculate its expected value (mean) and …

In population standard deviation is calculated using every individual from that population while in sample standard deviation we take specific number of individuals from the population.

Normal distributions come up time and time again in statistics. A normal distribution has some interesting properties: it has a bell shape, the mean and median are equal, and 68% of the data falls …