R: Standard deviation

stdev {splus2R} | R Documentation

## Standard deviation

### Description

Calculates the standard deviation of a series.

### Usage

    stdev(x, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | input series.
`...` | optional arguments sent directly to the `colVars` function. You can control for example the removal of NA values prior to analysis via the `na.rm` argument, and whether or not an unbiased estimate is returned via the `unbiased` argument.

### Value

the standard deviation of the input series.

### See Also

`var`.

### Examples

    stdev(c(pi, 1, 3))

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