standard deviation
US /ˈstæn.dɚd ˌdiː.viˈeɪ.ʃən/
UK /ˈstæn.dəd ˌdiː.viˈeɪ.ʃən/
名詞
標準差
a quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole; a measure of how spread out numbers are
範例:
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The standard deviation of the test scores was quite low, meaning most students performed similarly.
測試成績的標準差相當低，這意味著大多數學生的表現相似。
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In statistics, standard deviation is used to measure the amount of variation in a set of values.
在統計學中，標準差用於衡量一組數值的變異量。