stddev

Computes standard deviation

Synopsis

	function stddev(
		data : numeric
	)

Arguments

data: a numeric data array of any dimensionality

Description

Returns the standard deviation of the input data. Missing values (data@_FillValue) are ignored. To determine the number of data points used to calculate the standard deviation use:

   N = num(.not.ismissing(data))

Technically, this function calculates the population standard deviation.

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