While Excel is useful for many applications, it is an indispensable tool for those managing statistics. Two common terms used in statistics are Standard Deviation and ...

Somewhere back in your middle school and high school math classes, you no doubt learned about the mean and standard deviation as fairly fundamental concepts in arithmetic and statistics. You also knew ...

Flickr via Google Images Standard deviation is a concept that's thrown around frequently in finance. So what is it? When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know ...

The extent to which products meet specifications needs to be systematically monitored in a production process. Product quality will typically be defined by two quantities: deviations from stated ...

Standard deviation is a measurement of variation within a set of data points relative to the dataset’s mean average. A higher standard deviation indicates greater variability, while a lower standard ...

It's possible to calculate the standard error in MATLAB by running a one-line command. Standard error is a measurement of the variability of a data set and how ...

Standard deviation is a measurement of market volatility. Learn how investors use standard deviation in the MoneySense Glossary. Standard deviation (σ) is an investing metric used to measure the ...

Andriy Blokhin has 5+ years of professional experience in public accounting, personal investing, and as a senior auditor with Ernst & Young. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and ...