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Is standard deviation same as standard error?
From what ive gathered standard error is how relative to the population some data is, such as how relative an answer is to men or to women. The lower the standard error the more meaningful to the population the data is. Standard deviation is how different sets of data vary between each other, sort of like the mean. * * * * * Not true! Standard deviation is a property of the whole population or distribution. Standard error applies to a sample taken from the population and is an estimate for the standard deviation.
Standard deviation is denoted by?
The letter s, or by sd. The Greek lower case sigma is also used.
Is standard deviation an absolute value?
No. Standard deviation is not an absolute value. The standard deviation is often written as a single positive value (magnitude), but it is really a binomial, and it equals both the positive and negative of the given magnitude. For example, if you are told that for a population the SD is 5.0, it really means +5.0 and -5.0 from the population mean. It defines a region within the distribution, starting at the lower magnitude (-5.0) increasing to zero (the mean), and another region starting at zero (the mean) and increasing up to the upper magnitude (+5.0). Both regions together define the (continuous) region of standard deviation from the mean value.
Can the five-number summary be used to calculate the standard deviation?
No. To calculate a sample standard deviation one requires the sample values. The five-number summary provides only the lowest value, the highest, the median, and the upper and lower quartiles. In any sample of size greater than five some values will be missing from the summary.
What is the statistical symbol for population standard deviation?
It is the lower case Greek letter sigma. I cannot show it here because this browser converts it to the Roman letter s, but the Greek one looks like an o with a tilde attached to its top.
