When reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...

While Excel is useful for many applications, it is an indispensable tool for those managing statistics. Two common terms used in statistics are Standard Deviation and ...

Choosing a roster with Matt Schaub, Adrian Peterson, Jamal Lewis, and Chad Johnson might win you four or five weeks by a large margin, but you'll lose all the weeks those four put up single digits. In ...

Using Microsoft Excel you can create charts based on the data and formulas entered in a worksheet. Enter a sample range of numbers in Excel as if you were at an event asking people their ages, for ...

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Standard deviation is a concept that's thrown around frequently in finance. So what is it? When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know is what the "typical" ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The use of sample quasi-ranges in estimating the standard deviation of normal, rectangular, and exponential populations is discussed. For the ...

In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...

For example, suppose that the manufacturing process described in the previous example produces engines whose weights are normally distributed with a mean of 1250 and a standard deviation of 12. The ...