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Variance And Standard Deviation

This article explains variance and standard deviation.

What Is A Variance?

Variance is the average of the squared differences from the mean. Consider the following collection.

[2,4,6,8]

The mean of the above collection is.

Sum of squares = 9 + 1 + 1 + 9 = 20

Standard deviation is the square root of variance.

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