Somewhere back in your middle school and high school math classes, you no doubt learned about the mean and standard deviation as fairly fundamental concepts in arithmetic and statistics. You also knew ...

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A SIMPLE graphical method of calculating standard deviations has been described by Dr. B. Woolf 1. It is sometimes useful, as a means of estimating short-term variations in a process or product, as ...