Thread: short cut to Standard Deviation
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Old 08-22-2005, 10:23 PM
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Default short cut to Standard Deviation
now that i think about it isnt standard deviation just the average deviation from the mean
so shouldn't you be able to find SD by averaging the absolute values of the deviation from the mean
instead of finding the sqrt of your variance

i have tried this out and it didn't work
i was wondering if anyone here had tried it and similar/different results
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