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LCOL Statistics 11: Standard Deviation

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You’ll learn

  • Find the standard deviation on the calculator
  • Read what a small versus large standard deviation means

Formula used

Standard deviation (calculator)

Casio: MODE → 2 (Stat) → 1 (1-VAR), type each value =, AC, SHIFT → 1 → 4 (Var) → 3 (σ) → =

On page 20 of the log tables — read it off, don’t memorise.

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