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Standard deviation

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-006044

Standard deviation is a measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data. It is calculated by taking the square root of the variance and is symbolised by s.d., or s.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-006044
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesUS Environmental Protection Agency; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoStatistical analysis
TranslationsSpanish: desviación típica
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006044",
  "term": "Standard deviation",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Standard deviation is a measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data. It is calculated by taking the square root of the variance and is symbolised by s.d., or s.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "statistical analysis"
  ],
  "references": [
    "US Environmental Protection Agency",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "desviación típica"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/standard-deviation/"
}

Record 5,953 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.