"standard deviation" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: standard deviations [plural]
Etymology: Coined by English mathematician Karl Pearson in 1894 in his paper "On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves". Head templates: {{en-noun}} standard deviation (plural standard deviations)
  1. (statistics) A measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root of the variance. Represented with the Greek letter σ (sigma). Wikipedia link: Karl Pearson Categories (topical): Statistics Synonyms: standard error, sigma Translations (statistical measure): devijimi standard (Albanian), انحراف معياري (Arabic), orta kvadratik meyl (Azerbaijani), стандартнае адхіленьне (standartnaje adxiljenʹnje) [neuter] (Belarusian), стандартно отклонение (standartno otklonenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), desviació estàndard [feminine] (Catalan), desviació tipus [feminine] (Catalan), لادانی پێوانەیی (ladanî pêwaneyî) (Central Kurdish), 標準差 (Chinese Cantonese), 标准差 (biu¹ zeon² caa¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 標準差 (Chinese Mandarin), 标准差 (biāozhǔn chā) (Chinese Mandarin), směrodatná odchylka [feminine] (Czech), standardafvigelse [common-gender] (Danish), standaardafwijking [feminine] (Dutch), standaarddeviatie [feminine] (Dutch), norma diferenco (Esperanto), standardhälve (Estonian), keskihajonta (Finnish), écart type [masculine] (French), desviación típica (Galician), Standardabweichung [feminine] (German), τυπική απόκλιση (typikí apóklisi) [feminine] (Greek), סטיית תקן (Hebrew), staðalfrávik [neuter] (Icelandic), simpangan baku (Indonesian), scarto quadratico medio [masculine] (Italian), deviazione standard [feminine] (Italian), scarto tipo [masculine] (Italian), 標準偏差 (hyōjun hensa) (alt: ひょうじゅんへんさ) (Japanese), standartnovirze (Latvian), standartinis nuokrypis (Lithuanian), стандардно отстапување (standardno otstapuvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), sisihan piawai (Malay), standardavvik (Norwegian), انحراف معیار (Persian), odchylenie standardowe [neuter] (Polish), desvio-padrão [masculine] (Portuguese), станда́ртное отклоне́ние (standártnoje otklonénije) [neuter] (Russian), smerodajná odchýlka [feminine] (Slovak), standardna deviacija [feminine] (Slovene), desviación estándar [feminine] (Spanish), desviación típica [feminine] (Spanish), standardavvikelse [common-gender] (Swedish), pamantayang liwas (Tagalog), ส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน (sùan-bìang-ben-mâat-rá-tăan) (Thai), станда́ртне відхи́лення (standártne vidxýlennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), معیاری انحراف (Urdu), gwyriad safonol [masculine] (Welsh), tadena standardi (Zazaki)

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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "standardno otstapuvanje",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "стандардно отстапување"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "word": "sisihan piawai"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "word": "standardavvik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "word": "انحراف معیار"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "odchylenie standardowe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desvio-padrão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "standártnoje otklonénije",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "станда́ртное отклоне́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "smerodajná odchýlka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "standardna deviacija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "desviación estándar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "desviación típica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "standardavvikelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "word": "pamantayang liwas"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sùan-bìang-ben-mâat-rá-tăan",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "word": "ส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "standártne vidxýlennja",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "станда́ртне відхи́лення"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "word": "معیاری انحراف"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gwyriad safonol"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "statistical measure",
      "word": "tadena standardi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "standard deviation"
}

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