up to, 1  as far as or approaching (a certain part, degree, point, etc.): She went wading up to her knees. I am up to the eighth lesson. 2  in full realization or attainment of: He worked up to president of the company. 3  as many as; to the limit of: The car will seat up to five persons.
The standard deviation is a measure of how the data is clustered about the mean. For large sets of data, approximately 68.3% of the data lies within one standard deviation of the mean and approximately 95.4% of the data lies within two standard deviations of the mean.
The standard deviation is a figure in statistics that shows how far data deviates from the mean figure. If you want to make a chart of data, you can list your data, make a graph and calculate averages and standard deviation from Microsoft Excel. You can also use the Excel formula wizard to choose the standard deviation formula. 2  Click on Insert in the Formula bar. 3  Then, select Statistical and select STDEV.. 4  Type in your data range in the box that pops up.