What Is Standard Deviation?
Standard deviation measures how far values typically sit from the mean of a data set. It is written σ when the data is a whole population and s when it is a sample. Unlike variance, it is in the same units as your data, so a standard deviation of 3 kg means something you can picture directly. A small value means the numbers are bunched close to the mean; a large value means they are spread out. This calculator gives you both the population and the sample standard deviation, and the variance they come from.