Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, ...

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This project is a simple statistics calculator that allows users to input a set of numbers and calculates key statistical metrics: mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and variance. It leverages ...

If you are working with a large dataset, knowing its standard deviation is handy as it will let you know the variability in the given dataset. You get to see the degree of asymmetry in your dataset ...