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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _compute_std(self, C, stddevs, idx):
 """ Compute total standard deviation, see tables 3 and 4, pages 227 and 228. """

        for stddev in stddevs:
            stddev[idx] += C['sigma']