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I find it difficult to distinguish between variance and standard deviation.

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Allan Poon

16 October 2020

I find it difficult to distinguish between variance and standard deviation.

Can somebody tell me the difference between variance and standard deviation?

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Sum Wong

16 October 2020

Welcome and good luck!

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Allan Poon

16 October 2020

Thanks! I did not know much about statistics…that’s very helpful.

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Sum Wong

16 October 2020

I understand the confusion. Variance (s2) tells us how spread out a data set is, and its square root is the standard deviation (s) which can tell us about each data point’s deviation relative to the mean.

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