calculating standard deviation

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calculating standard deviation

Post by churchken » Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:04 am

The LiveCode "standardDeviation" returns a value based on "sample" methodology for the numbers list, rather than "entire population" method. For example, Excel allows for both "STDEV" and "STDEVP" calculations, and they produce significantly different results on relatively small lists of numbers.

Is there an undocumented method to produce "STDEVP" results with LiveCode?

Thanks for any assistance,
Ken

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Re: calculating standard deviation

Post by FourthWorld » Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:21 pm

Not that I'm aware of, but if you write such a function I'd be grateful if you shared it. I may need that option in a project coming up in a few months.
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