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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A statistic used as a measure of the dispersion or variation in a distribution, equal to the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the deviations from the arithmetic mean.
Wiktionary
- n. statistics A measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root of the variance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the square root of the variance
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