Routledge Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition
A measure of the dispersion of values of a variable about its ARITHMETIC MEAN that is calculated as the square root of the sum of the differences between each of those values and the arithmetic mean divided by the number of values minus one.
See also: mean deviation; variance
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