Question

find the answer for this s=? write the formula​

Answer 1

Answer:

Calculate the average of the numbers,

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Subtract the mean from each number (x)

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Square each of the differences,

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Add up all of the results from Step 3 to get the sum of squares,

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Divide the sum of squares (found in Step 4) by the number of numbers minus one; that is, (n – 1).

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Take the square root to get the result

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This is the sample standard deviation, s. Whew!

At the end of Step 5, you have found a statistic called the sample variance, denoted by s2. The variance is another way to measure variation in a data set; its downside is that it’s in square units. If your data are in dollars, for example, the variance would be in square dollars — which makes no sense. That’s why you proceed to Step 6. Standard deviation has the same units as the original data.

Standard deviation formula example:

Suppose you have four quiz scores: 1, 3, 5, and 7. The mean is 16 ÷ 4 = 4 points. Subtracting the mean from each number, you get (1 – 4) = –3, (3 – 4) = –1, (5 – 4) = +1, and (7 – 4) = +3. Squaring each of these results, you get 9, 1, 1, and 9. Adding these up, the sum is 20. In this example, n = 4, and therefore n – 1 = 3, so you divide 20 by 3 to get 6.67, which is the variance. The units here are “points squared,” which obviously makes no sense. Finally, you take the square root of 6.67, to get 2.58. The standard deviation for these four quiz scores is 2.58 points.

Because calculating the standard deviation involves many steps, in most cases you have a computer calculate it for you. However, knowing how to calculate the standard deviation helps you better interpret this statistic and can help you figure out when the statistic may be wrong.

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