Posts tagged standard deviation
Transforming random variables by shifting and scaling the data set

Shifting the data set by a constant k means adding k to every value in the data set, or subtracting k from every value in the data set. On the other hand, scaling the data set by a constant k means multiplying or dividing every value in the data set by k.

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How to find Mean, variance, and standard deviation

It’s important to know whether we’re talking about a population or a sample, because in this section we’ll be talking about variance and standard deviation, and we’ll use different formulas for variance and standard deviation depending on whether we’re using data from a population or data from a sample.

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