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.
Definition of Standard Deviation. Standard deviation (Ï) is defined as the square root of the variance. It measures the variability about the mean of a data set: the closer to the mean, the lower the standard deviation.efinition of Standard Deviation. Standard deviation (Ï) is defined as the square root of the variance. It measures the variability about the mean of a data set: the closer to the mean, the lower the standard deviation.