title 'Specifying Standard Process Mean and Standard Deviation'; symbol v=dot c=salmon; proc shewhart history=tape; xrchart weight*sample / mu0 = 1260 sigma0 = 15 xsymbol = mu0 cframe = bigb cinfill = ...

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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 ...

An animated guide explaining how the standard devition can give you a clearer picture of a sample than averages alone. An example involving zoo keepers and some very dangerous animals demonstrates ...

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Standard deviation (SD) is still the most widely used measure of dispersion, or in financial markets, risk.That all sounds a bit technical but it's actually pretty straightforward to understand. It is ...

For example, suppose that the manufacturing process described in the previous example produces engines whose weights are normally distributed with a mean of 1250 and a standard deviation of 12. The ...