Preview - Descriptive Statistics

Standard Deviation - Unplugged

Here is the formula for sample standard deviation, as it appears in our textbook and AP formula sheet:

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Using what you know about order of operations and previous math courses, look at the formula above and write out a procedure or "pseudo code" that will take a given data set (e.g., 5 numbers) and calculate sample standard deviation. 

Notes

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