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klipt
3192 days ago
"Standard Deviation" is not incorrect, statistics is a branch of math.
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pps43
3192 days ago
Standard deviation is lowercase sigma, sum is uppercase sigma. They are not the same.
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klipt
3192 days ago
Uppercase sigma is used for multivariate distributions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_normal_distributi...
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pps43
3191 days ago
But this is not common. If you don't know what uppercase sigma refers to, sum is a much better guess than standard deviation of multivatiate normal distribution.
In this case google is probably simply case insensitive.
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