Standard Deviation |
September 1st, 2011 |
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Why isn't it:
That is, why is it the square root of the average of (x-mu)^2 instead of just the average of |x-mu|? How is the squared version more useful?
Update 2011-09-01 I had left out the square root on the standard deviation.
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