You knew something like this had to be on the web!!
>>Hi All.
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>>I'm in a bit of a problem here. I need to compute the standard deviation on an array of values. I know it's easy to do it on table data: CALCULATE STD(numfield). But what is the actual textbook formula? Anyone got a mathematics textbook handy or a darn good memory?
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>See
http://www.hoxie.org/math/stat/stats.htm about half down the page.