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What is 'Standard Deviation'. Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean. If the data points are further from the mean, there is higher deviation within the data set. Standard deviation is calculated as the square root of variance by determining the variation between each data point relative to the mean.
By Courtney Taylor. Definition: The standard deviation measures how spread out a data set is from its mean. The standard deviation is the square root of the variance of a data set, and is calculated by this formula.Examples: 1  The data set 2,2,2,2,2 is not spread out at all, and has standard deviation of zero. 2  The data set 2,3,4,4,5,6 has standard deviation of approximately 1.4.efinition: The standard deviation measures how spread out a data set is from its mean. The standard deviation is the square root of the variance of a data set, and is calculated by this formula. Examples: