standard deviation of a random variable 1

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(probability and statistics) the average distance of a random variable from the mean value, equal to the square root of its variance.

  • 1.The variance and standard deviation of a random variable are the sample variance and sample standard deviation we expect to get if we have a large number of X-scores.
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