The formula for standard deviation becomes. Standard deviation may be abbreviated SD and is most commonly. It is worth noting that there exist many different equations for calculating sample standard deviation since unlike sample mean sample standard deviation does not have any single estimator that is unbiased efficient and has a maximum likelihood.
N n i1 f i.
N number of values in the sample. S sample standard deviation. X with bar on top. In statistics it appears most often in the two sample t-test which is used to test whether or not the means of two populations are equal.