standard deviation

English

Etymology

Coined by English mathematician Karl Pearson in 1894 in his paper "On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves".

Noun

standard deviation (plural standard deviations)

(statistics) A measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root of the variance. Represented with the Greek letter σ (sigma).

Synonyms

Translations

statistical measure

Catalan: desviació estàndard f, desviació tipus f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 標準差, 标准差 (biu¹ zeon² caa¹)

Mandarin: 標準差 (zh), 标准差 (zh) (biāozhǔn chā)
Czech: směrodatná odchylka f
Danish: standardafvigelse c
Dutch: standaardafwijking (nl) f, standaarddeviatie (nl) f
Esperanto: norma diferenco
Finnish: keskihajonta (fi)
French: écart type (fr) m
German: Standardabweichung (de) f

Greek: τυπική απόκλιση f (typikí apóklisi)
Icelandic: staðalfrávik n
Italian: scarto quadratico medio m, deviazione standard (it) f, scarto tipo m
Japanese: 標準偏差 (ja) (ひょうじゅんへんさ, hyōjun hensa)
Polish: odchylenie standardowe n
Portuguese: desvio padrão m
Russian: станда́ртное отклоне́ние n (standártnoje otklonénije)
Swedish: standardavvikelse c
Tagalog: pamantayang liwas
Thai: ส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน (sùan-bìang-ben-mâat-rá-tăan)
Welsh: gwyriad safonol m

See also

standard deviation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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