a measure of dispersion obtained by extracting the square root of the mean of the squared deviations of the observed values from their mean in a frequency distribution
standard deviation in American English
Statistics
a measure of variability equal to the square root of the arithmetic average of the squares of the deviations from the mean in a frequency distribution
Examples of 'standard deviation' in a sentence
standard deviation
This spread of possible outcomes is usually measured by standard deviation.
Charles A. D'Ambrosio & Stewart D. Hodges & Richard Brealey & Stewart Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (1991)