How to Calculate Standard Deviation 99

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1000's of Free Games On Facebook To Choose From. Start Playing Now! Looking for My Music?www.Facebook.com Find My Music on Facebook. Sign Up Free Now! MSc Statisticswww.math.leidenuniv.nl/statscience Master in Statistical Science for the Life and Behavioral Sciences So six straightforward steps to Calculate Standard Deviation ;-

1. Get the Mean 2. Get the deviations 3. Square these 4. Add the squares 5. Divide by total numbers less one 6. Square root of result is Standard Deviation
-----------------------------------------------------SO STEP BY STEP;-

1. get the Mean to begin you need the mean or the average, for example add 23, 92, 46, 55, 63, 94, 77, 38, 84, 26 ... = 598 divide by 10 (the actual number of numbers) 598 divided by 10 = 59.8
so the mean or average of 23, 92, 46, 55, 63, 94, 77, 38, 84, 26 is 59.8 ____________________________________________________

2. get the deviations

subtract the mean from each of the numbers, the answers are;-36.8, 32.2, -13.8, -4.8, 3.2, 34.2, 17.2, -21.8, 24.2, -33.8 ____________________________________________________ 3. square these to square means multiply them by themselves, the answers are;1354.24, 1036.84, 190.44, 23.04, 10.24, 1169.64, 295.84, 475.24, 585.64, 1142.44 ____________________________________________________

4. add the squares total of these numbers is 6,283.60 ____________________________________________________ 5. divide by total number of numbers less one;you had 10 numbers less 1 is 9 numbers so 6283.60 divided by 9 = 698.18 _____________________________________________________ 6. square root of result is Standard Deviation

square root is the number multiplied by itself to get 698.18 which is:26.4 so 26.4 is the Standard Deviation... _____________________________________________________ Ok so above is the manual method of doing this _________________________________________________ ...below is the step by step example using Excel...

Step 1
Enter your range of numbers as shown in cells 1 to 10..

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Step 2
place the cursor in Cell 11 go to the menu bar, select insert, select function - the insert function dialog box opens. Click on the category and select Statistical In the window below select Average hit enter

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Select the Insert Function

Step 2a
When you hit enter another dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the range, i.e. the numbers in cells 1 to 10 that you wish to perform the calculation on. Just hit enter The Mean or Average will now appear in Cell 11

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Step 3
Place the cursor in Cell 12 same as before Go to the menu bar, select insert, select function The function dialog box will open, select statistical, in the window below scroll down and select STDEV

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Step 4
When you hit enter another dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the range, i.e. the numbers in cells 1 to 10 that you wish to perform the calculation on. Since it automatically seeks to perfrom the calc on all the cells above you will have to change the range from D4:D14 to D4:D13 The Standard Deviation will now appear in Cell 12

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Pat yourself on the back if...

your final calc matches this...

and the Final Score is...26.4

Here is the link to the excel sheet, you can simply download it as an excel sheet and modify it to your needs.... :-)

Excel to accompany above Standard deviation example spreadsheet in excel, just download and save as excel spreadsheet

Ok So What Good is it?

Wiki say;Standard deviation may serve as a measure of uncertainty. etc etc and I went WTF does that mean (and I am a statistical / Excel head) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation

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