Variance and standard deviation

• what is a variance?

  the average of the squared distances of the mean
• what is the formula for variance?


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• what is a way of remembering it?

  >the mean of the squares of the data - the square of the actual mean
• what is the formula for standard deviation?


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• what basically is standard deviation?

  >it is the square root of the variance