Briefly define the standard deviation.

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hubes95

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on: Mar 7, 2019

Briefly define the standard deviation.

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kusterl

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Reply #1 on: Mar 7, 2019

Standard deviation tells us the dispersion of scores; it is the square root of the variance.

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