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.
Sample Standard Deviation. A standard deviation of a sample estimates the standard deviation of a population based on a random sample. The sample standard deviation, unlike the population standard deviation, is a statistic that measures the dispersion of the data around the sample mean.tandard deviation refers to the amount of dispersion in a given data set. Researchers calculate the standard deviation of a data set by taking the square root of the variance, and the numerical result is indicated by the letter S. They use the term âvarianceâ to describe the extent of the data spread.