standard-deviation

standard-deviation list

Reports the sample standard deviation of a list of numbers. Ignores other types of items.

(Note that this estimates the standard deviation for a sample, rather than for a whole population, using Bessel's correction.)

show standard-deviation [1 2 3 4 5 6]
=> 1.8708286933869707
show standard-deviation [energy] of turtles
;; prints the standard deviation of the variable "energy"
;; from all the turtles

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