When reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...

While Excel is useful for many applications, it is an indispensable tool for those managing statistics. Two common terms used in statistics are Standard Deviation and ...

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Rate of return and standard deviation are two of the most useful statistical concepts in business. These two figures will tell you whether a business project is worth the investment and trouble, given ...

The aim of this paper is: (i) to find the best linear estimates of the means and standard deviations of the rectangular, triangular, exponential and double exponential populations; (ii) to compare the ...

In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has ...