In contrast to loose connective tissue types where protein fibers are small and less abundant, dense connective tissues possess large, robust fibers that impart to these tissues considerable strength. Fibers are so numerous the extracellular matrix contains few if any open spaces where ground substance is visible.
Standard deviation is a mathematical measurement of average variance and features prominently in statistics, economics, accounting and finance. For a given data set, the standard deviation measures how spread out numbers are from an average value. Standard deviation can be calculated by taking the square root of the variance, which itself is the average of the squared differences of the mean. When it comes to mutual fund or hedge fund investing, analysts look to standard deviation more than any other risk measurement.
The Standard Normal Distribution. The standard normal distribution is a normal distribution with a mean of zero and standard deviation of 1. The standard normal distribution is centered at zero and the degree to which a given measurement deviates from the mean is given by the standard deviation.or the standard normal distribution, 68% of the observations lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean; 95% lie within two standard deviation of the mean; and 99.9% lie within 3 standard deviations of the mean. To this point, we have been using X to denote the variable of interest (e.g., X=BMI, X=height, X=weight).