Standard Deviation Lex Toumbourou · Nov 18, 2024 · revised Sep 26, 2026 A common measure of the spread of data. xˉ\bar{x}xˉ is the average of some numbers x1,...,xnx_1, ..., x_nx1,...,xn Standard deviation of those numbers is s=1n∑i=1n(xi−xˉ)2s = \sqrt{\frac{1}{n} \sum\limits^{n}_{i=1} (x_i - \bar{x})^2 }s=n1i=1∑n(xi−xˉ)2