How to Use standard deviation in a Sentence

standard deviation

noun

• In this case, the offspring should be 0.2 standard deviation units above the mean.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2011
• That rate, a fifth of a standard deviation every decade, is about the same improvement as has been seen in IQ tests over the past 80 years.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• Nine of the 13 had K rates of at least one-half standard deviation above league average.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• The X-rays from this location stood out above the background by four standard deviations.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
• The most extreme spikes—those 10 standard deviations above the mean or more—skewed even more positive.
  — Andrea Fuller, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
• As a result, the mean and the standard deviation for each characteristic should be about the same—but not too identical.
  — David Adam, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
• This is expressed in terms of the extreme spread (ES) of measured velocities of a shot string that’s been chronographed, and the standard deviation (SD) of that data.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2020
• This would put their height standard deviation at just 0.1 inches.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2022
• That’s more than a two standard deviation move, suggesting the bond selloff may be overdone.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Rondo has one of the highest standard deviations in the league for players in and around his average production.
  — Doug Norrie, SI.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The MiniBooNE result had a standard deviation measured at 4.8 sigma, just shy of the 5.0 threshold physicists look for.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2018
• To put this in technical terms, no other NBA team has a lower standard deviation in wins or end-of-season rankings this decade.
  — Phillip Reese, sacbee, 17 Feb. 2018
• These indicators were then all normalized to have a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1.
  — Mary Radcliffe, ABC News, 18 June 2024
• The only real question mark is Rondo, whose standard deviation of minutes is the thing of nightmares.
  — Doug Norrie, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• One standard deviation above the mean in this variable adds one year to predicted life Black expectancy.
  — Time, 23 Nov. 2022
• In July of this year, the ratio surpassed the 200% threshold – representing more than a two standard deviation above its long-term trend.
  — Nick Sargen, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• But the standard deviation of female lifespan — a measure of variation — dropped by six years.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2022
• Alphabet stock is trading within one standard deviation of its 40-day moving average for the sixth time in the past three years.
  — Schaeffer's Investment Research, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The volatility of Brent crude, the international benchmark, has fallen to around 22%, measured by the standard deviation of daily price moves over the past year.
  — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• In all 20 of his seasons, his strikeout rate was over one-half standard deviation lower than league average.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• Places with monsoon seasons will have a larger standard deviation in rainfall; places with roughly even rainfall across the year will be lower.
  — Becky Lang, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2013
• In rare cases, the values can range even further away from the mean, and this is where the fatal flaw comes into play when the standard deviation is high: the value can reach zero, which implies extinction.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 July 2017
• His curve had a 23.8% pitch-specific whiff rate, over two standard deviations higher than league average and by far the best among all qualifiers.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• That may not sound like much, but for neutrinos, where detecting any of them is a serious challenge, that's enough to make for a 3.5 standard deviation excess.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 July 2018
• His grounder rate was also over a full standard deviation above average.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• The shares are within one standard deviation of their 320-day moving average.
  — Schaeffer's Investment Research, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Look again at that figure - the error bars, indicating the data standard deviation, are tiny.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2016
• There are 10 measurements where 'Oumuamua was more than five standard deviations away from where it would be expected to have ended up based on gravity alone.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 June 2018
• Using Twitter reduced performance on the test by about 25 to 40 percent of a standard deviation from the average result, as the paper explains.
  — oregonlive, 30 May 2019
• Overall, boys performed marginally better than girls in math, by about 10% of a standard deviation—suggesting only a slight gender gap.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 17 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024