noun

• A quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole.

  ‘Average values and standard deviations were then calculated for each of the compounds in the experiment.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘If no standard deviations were reported then we used the average standard deviation for all the remaining studies.’
  • ‘Mean values and standard deviations were calculated for all variables.’
  • ‘All costs are reported as mean values with standard deviations.’
  • ‘Each value is the mean standard deviation of at least four independent measurements.’