standard deviation

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That says the amount of a risky asset you want in your portfolio is equal to its expected excess return, divided by the square of the standard deviation of returns.

From Barron's

The magnitudes of the changes were calculated in terms of standard deviations, which are used in statistics to convey how tightly a group of data points is clustered together.

From Los Angeles Times

"Our study proposed a simple yet objective method for determining hotspots using standard deviation values. This is the first time that this has been done."

From Science Daily

Above eight standard deviations is considered “very high.”

From New York Times

Funds' bonds allocation in November soared 18 points over the month to leave them net 19% overweight - almost 3 standard deviations above long-term averages.

From Reuters