deviation
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Standard deviation is a measure of how spread out data points are around the average.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Participants born between 1990 and 1999 had systemic aging that was 92% of one standard deviation higher than those born between 1965 and 1969.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Modelling for Operation Blue Skies suggests a full deviation through Shanwick would mean around 100kg of additional fuel per affected aircraft.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Weather will be the market’s concern next week as this report did not have a deviation significant enough to be a major market factor,” said the Hightower Report in a note following the WASDE’s release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“The deviation from that line of politics on which we had been united has not made me less sensible of the rectitude of his heart: and I wished him to know this.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
"At the smallest spatial scales explored in the experiment, the production rate of J/ψ particles is significantly suppressed, with a statistical significance of about three standard deviations."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Relativity seems pretty solid. We haven’t seen any deviations from that,” said Katie Mack, Hawking chair in cosmology and science communication at the Perimeter Institute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
That trade has since unwound dramatically, leaving growth more than two standard deviations oversold relative to value, partly because of the recent blowup of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
While weather forecasts have been leaning toward warmer than normal, “temperature deviations from normal don’t yet appear sufficient to spur much of a price advance from here,” Ritterbusch & Associates says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Across the sheet are averages and standard deviations for the 107 dogs most recently adopted.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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