https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation says
In statistics, the standard deviation (SD, also represented by the Greek letter sigma σ or the Latin letter s) is a measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values. But technically, our #stdev is only one of several variants, namely 'corrected sample standard deviation' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation#Corrected_sample_standard_deviation] But you probably searched for it and did not find it since it was abbreviated ... > On 28 Sep 2016, at 20:29, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > > No this is my initials. I should have copyrighted them so may be we could > have decent names. > > Le 28/9/16 à 21:26, [email protected] a écrit : >> In R, it is even shorter: >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/stats/html/sd.html >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:50 PM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi guys >> >> >> is stdev a typical name for standardDeviation? >> >> Because I found it sad to have mean and stdev instead of mean and >> standardDeviation. >> >> >> Stef >> >> >> >
