standard deviation

A quick way to see how much a set of datapoints deviates from their own average, where the points that lie farthest away, have the most weight, because the differences are squared.

Standard Deviation: "The sum of the differences from the average squared"

standard deviation by lacrlourles January 31, 2016

standard deviation

a sexual fetish that was previously considered perverse but is now commonplace

Bondage and foot fetishes are standard deviations

standard deviation by mandingoe September 24, 2004

Standard Deviation

In Finance, a higher standard deviation means the returns are more spread out, but a lower standard deviation means the returns are more consistent or stable.

"Last year, Stock A had a standard deviation of 10%, which means its price fluctuated by about 10% from the average return"

Standard Deviation by Willow Terry January 27, 2025

Standard Gossard Deviation 

The point in time when although things are working fine a complete system restart has occured

Them: How'd things go last night during registration?

Me: Well as you can see by this graph, thigs were working but here you see the standard gossard deviation, then it was busy again.

Them: What an idiot!

Standard Gossard Deviation by justsomeahole February 28, 2012