How to calculate Standard Deviation in Excel The Standard Deviation is a term used in statistics. The term describes how much the numbers if a set of data vary from the mean.

The equation for the standard error of the mean is the sample standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size.

A sampling error is a statistical error that occurs when a sample does not represent the entire population. See how to avoid sampling errors in data analysis.

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