The Python statistics module is a built-in module for performing simple statistical calculations. Since it's part of the standard Python library, it's available in every Python installation. To access ...

Usually when it comes to writing, mathematics and statistics probably aren’t the first things that come to mind. However, quite the number of us have had to face an instance where a source based on ...

Somewhere back in your middle school and high school math classes, you no doubt learned about the mean and standard deviation as fairly fundamental concepts in arithmetic and statistics. You also knew ...

While Excel is useful for many applications, it is an indispensable tool for those managing statistics. Two common terms used in statistics are Standard Deviation and ...

We discourage the use of a diagnostic for normality: the interquartile range divided by the standard deviation. This statistic has been suggested in several introductory statistics books as a method ...

In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...

It's possible to calculate the standard error in MATLAB by running a one-line command. MATLAB is a programming platform from MathWorks that's designed for and used by ...