# Standard deviation

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Standard deviation is a measure in statistics of the dispersion of a set of values (represented as X). It is defined as the square root of the variance of these values, where variance is defined as

$\sigma^2 = \operatorname{E}[(X-\operatorname{E}[X])^2] = \operatorname{E}[X^2] - (\operatorname{E}[X])^2$

where the expected value of X is E(X).

Thus the standard deviation is

$\sigma = \sqrt{\operatorname{E}[(X-\operatorname{E}[X])^2]} = \sqrt{\operatorname{E}[X^2] - (\operatorname{E}[X])^2}$

The formula for standard deviation must not be confused with the formula

$S_{n} = \sqrt {\sum_n(X_n - \bar X)^2 \over n - 1}$

(where $\bar X = {\sum_n X_n \over N}$ is the sample mean).

which is the formula for a point estimate of the true standard deviation from a sample size of n. As such this statistical estimator itself has a variance which, as the formula indicates, decreases as the sample size increases.
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