Date: Tue Jun 5 10:16:23 2001
Posted By: Maurice MESSERI, Faculty, Math and Control Science, ESIEE (Retired Math and Control science professor)
Area of science: Engineering
ID: 989355232.Eg
Message:
It's a misleading name, but it has to do with a "mean". it may be
considered as a good positive approximation of the mean of the deviation
of the elements of a statistic series frome the mean of this series. The
name "standard deviation" is more appropriate to the described data.
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