An Upper bound on the value of the standard deviation

John S. Croucher

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9639.2004.00157.x

An Upper bound on the value of the standard deviation

John S. Croucher

Macquarie Graduate School of Management

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Abstract

This article derives a simple upper bound for the sample standard deviation that could be useful in guarding against gross errors of calculation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	54-55
Number of pages	2
Journal	Teaching Statistics
Volume	26
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2004.00157.x
Publication status	Published - 2004

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teaching
standard deviation
range
upper bound

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