Why Python 3?
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 20 20:22:24 EDT 2014
Richard Damon wrote:
> If you thing of the Standard Deviation being the Root Mean Norm2 of the
> deviations, it has a very similar meaning as to over the reals, a
> measure of the "spread" of the values.
NumPy appears to handle this:
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.std.html
See the comment on that page about complex numbers.
So yes, it is meaningful and apparently people use it.
--
Greg
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