Maxima Function
std (list)
std(matrix)
This is the the square root of function var
, the variance with denominator n.
Example:
(%i1) load (descriptive)$ (%i2) load (numericalio)$ (%i3) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$ (%i4) std (s1), numer; (%o4) 2.902740084816414 (%i5) s2 : read_matrix (file_search ("wind.data"))$ (%i6) std (s2); (%o6) [4.149928523480858, 3.871399812729241, 3.933920277534866, 5.672434260526957, 4.941970881136392]