Friday, April 17, 2020

sd (Standard Deviation)

Return the standard deviation of a vector. A measure of shape. It's the expectation of the deviation of a random variable from its mean.

You can opt to remove NA values that exist in the data. According to the R documentation, this uses n-1 in the denominator.

R Example

> sd(1:2)
[1] 0.7071068
> sd(1:2) ^ 2
[1] 0.5

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