StandardDeviation (GenericNamedArraylist function)

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Calculate standard deviation of items or function of items (FloatNamedArraylist, NamedArraylist, and UnicodeNamedArraylist classes)

[Introduced in Sirius Mods 7.8]


This method returns by default the standard deviation of the values of the items in the collection, or the standard deviation after a specified function has been applied to the items.

The standard deviation measures the variation from the mean of the collection items; it is the square root of the collection's variance.

Syntax

%number = anyNal:StandardDeviation[( [itemFunction])]

Syntax terms

%number number
anyNal An FloatNamedArraylist, NamedArraylist, or UnicodeNamedArraylist object.
itemFunction A function that operates on the type of the items in the collection. It may be a local method or method variable or a class member (Variable, Property), and it must return an intrinsic (probably Float) value.

The default itemFunction value is the special identity function, This, which simply returns the item value.

Usage notes

Examples

See also