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- abbreviation sine die
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								And obama thinks there are 57 states in the u. s and canada has a president the great lakes are in oregon kentucky is next to arkansas sioux city s.d. ECT ECT ECT,,,, 
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								In the normal distribution, you have about a 68% chance of being within 1 s.d. of the mean, 95% of being within 2, and 99.7% (I think) of being within 3. As requested in the comments. Jessica Hagy 2007 
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								On the other hand, in the case of chemical analysis, the analyte concentration for a single determination needs to be 3 times the standard deviation of the blank to reliably report it as detected with 99.7% confidence and at least ten to 15 times the s.d. for quantitation. 
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								Sorry that £ s.d. keep you from the East, for there is much to interest here in every way, and you would be useful to me as an encyclopædia of oriental lore; as it is, Greek is looked on by me as hieroglyphics. 
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								Because of this, the normalization must be done using the s.d. adjusted for autocorrelation. 
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								The dotted lines are ~1 s.d. about the long-term mean. 
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								· All numbers following a ± sign are identified as standard errors (s.e.m.) or standard deviations (s.d.) Nature's Statistical Checklist for Authors « Climate Audit 2006 
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								The figure below plots all the series in the Yang composite in s.d. units. 
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								I have a fairlight CVI PLUS system .bought it new for mall studio .it still works great. jeff s.d. 
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								Anthracite to make gas at the rate of 1,500 s.d. cubic feet per hour = 18 lb. x 9 working hours = 162 lb., or, say, 1½ cwt. 20s. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various 
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