Manuals/calci/STDEVPA

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STDEVPA(n1,n2,n3…)


  • are numbers.

Description

  • This function gives the standard deviation based on a entire population as the given data including the logical value and text .
  • Standard Deviation is a quantity expressing by how much the members of a group differ from the mean value for the group.
  • It is the used as a measure of the dispersion or variation in a distribution.
  • It is calculated as the square root of variance.
  • In  ,  , are numbers to find the standard deviation.
  • Here   is required.   are optional.
  • Instead of numbers we can use the single array or a reference of a array.
  • STDEVPA is defined by the formula:

  where   is the sample mean of   and   is the total number in the given data.

  • It is calculated using   method.
  • This function is considering our given data is the entire population.
  • Suppose it should consider the data as the sample of the population, we can use the STDEVA function.
  • For huge sample sizes the functions   and   are approximately equal values.
  • The arguments can be either numbers or names, array,constants or references that contain numbers.
  • Also we can give the text representations of numbers or logical values , like TRUE or FALSE, in a reference.
  • Suppose the arguments containing TRUE which is evaluate as 1, and the arguments containing FALSE which is evaluate as 0.
  • Suppose the array contains the empty cells and text values like that values are not considered.
  • Suppose the function don't want to consider the logical values and text representations of numbers in a reference , we can use the * STDEVP function.
  • This function will return the result as error when
   1. Any one of the argument is non-numeric. 
   2. The arguments containing the error values or text that cannot be translated in to numbers.

Examples

Spreadsheet
A B C D E F G
1 87 121 427 390 110 542 412
2 2 2.4 3.7 14.9 28 198 154.1
3 5 9 17 true 6 0 41
  1. =STDEVPA(A1:E1) = 149.0597195757
  2. =STDEVPA(A2:G2) = 76.31463871127
  3. =STDEVPA(A3:D3) = 5.916079783
  4. =STDEVPA(2,12,22,32,false) = 12.09297316626478

Related Videos

STDEVP

See Also

References