LearningRlab (version 2.4)

explain.standardDeviation: Standard Deviation Function Explained

Description

Step by step demonstration of the standard deviation calculus.

Usage

explain.standardDeviation(x)

Value

Numeric result and the process of this calculus explained.

Arguments

x

Should be a numbers vector

Author

Dennis Monheimius,
Eduardo Benito,
Juan Jose Cuadrado,
Universidad de Alcala de Henares

Details

To calculate the standard deviation, the user should give a numbers vector. The result is the explained process to calculate the standard deviation, with the data of the dataset provided like argument. We can saw the standard deviation formule in the standardDeviation_ help document.

Examples

    #data creation
    data <- c(1,5,3,7,10,4,2)
    
    explain.standardDeviation(data)