STDEV function

Description

Standard deviation function. STDEV(range) calculates the sample standard deviation s of the data in range.

The argument range can be a list of numbers, cell addresses, cell ranges (such as A1:A10).

Range can also be a matrix. In that case the function returns a matrix with one row and the same number of columns, with each element the STDEV of the corresponding column. If range is a row matrix, it is converted to a column matrix first.

$$s = \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{}^{}{(x-\bar{x})^2}}{n-1}} $$

Example

STDEV(A1:A8) calculates the standard deviation of the contents of cells A1 to A8.

STDEV function

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List of Statistical spreadsheet functions