standard deviation
standard deviation noun: a measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root of the variance. Represented with the Greek letter σ (sigma).
Noun
standard deviation (plural standard deviations)
- A measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root of the variance. Represented with the Greek letter σ (sigma).
- Synonyms:
- standard error, sigma
standard deviation meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Tagalog
standard deviation in Tamil
- நியமவிலகல், திட்ட விலக்கம், தரவிலக்கம்
standard deviation in Urdu
- statistical measure
- معیاری انحراف
standard deviation in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಮಾಣಿತ ವಿಚಲನೆ
standard deviation in Tagalog
- statistical measure
- pamantayang liwas
More languagesFewer languages
- standard deviation in Arabic
- انحراف معياري
- standard deviation in Malay
- sisihan piawai
- standard deviation in Indonesian
- simpangan baku
- standard deviation in Persian
- انحراف معیار
- standard deviation in Thai
- ส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน sùan-bìang-ben-mâat-rá-tăan
Synonyms of standard deviation
Forms of standard deviation
| plural | standard deviations |
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Origin of standard deviation
Coined by English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist Karl Pearson in 1894 in his paper "On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves".
Questions about standard deviation
- What does standard deviation mean?
- Standard deviation means a measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root of the variance. Represented with the Greek letter σ (sigma).
- What is standard deviation in Tamil?
- Standard deviation in Tamil is நியமவிலகல், திட்ட விலக்கம், தரவிலக்கம். See Standard deviation meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is standard deviation?
- Standard deviation is a noun.
- What is the plural of standard deviation?
- The plural of standard deviation is standard deviations.
Words near standard deviation in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: standard deviation (page history and authors); standard deviation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); standard deviation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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