Standard Deviation Formula Variance. Subtract the mean and square the. Effectively the square root of the variance is the standard deviation.
It s the square root of variance. σ 2 σ x. With this in mind statisticians use the square root of the variance popularly known as standard deviation.
σ 2 σ x.
Standard deviation is expressed in the same units as the original values e g meters. σ 2 6 25 2 25 0 25 0 25 2 25 6 25 σ 2 2 917. We can put the value of data and mean in the formula to get. Mean x 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 3 5.