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 the square root of the variance, which in this case is or 1.73. Comparison to mean absolute deviation. The mean absolute deviation is when the negative sign is ignored so that all deviations are converted to positive numbers, summed, and then averaged.