Status SciMax Toolbox std1

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std

Maxima Function

Calling Sequence

std (list)
std(matrix)

Description

This is the the square root of function var, the variance with denominator n.

Example:

(%i1) load (descriptive)$
(%i2) load (numericalio)$
(%i3) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$
(%i4) std (s1), numer;
(%o4)                   2.902740084816414
(%i5) s2 : read_matrix (file_search ("wind.data"))$
(%i6) std (s2);
(%o6) [4.149928523480858, 3.871399812729241, 3.933920277534866,
                            5.672434260526957, 4.941970881136392]

See also functions and .

Status SciMax Toolbox std1