Full name
statistics.pstdev
Library
statistics
Syntax
statistics.pstdev(data, mu = None)
Description
The statistics.pstdev function returns the standard deviation of the population composed of the elements in data.
Parameters
- data: Iterable for whose elements you want to obtain the standard deviation.
- mu: Optional argument. Value from which deviations are calculated. If omitted, they are obtained with respect to the mean value of the data.
Result
The statistics.pstdev function returns a real number.
Examples
We can obtain the standard deviation of the values of a list with the following code:
statistics.pstdev([1, 3, 3, 6])
1.7853571071357126
In this second example we are going to generate a list made up of a thousand random values extracted from a Gaussian distribution with mean 5 and standard deviation 1:
import random
y = [random.gauss(5, 1) for _ in range(1000)]
Let's show the histogram:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.figure(figsize = (8, 4))
plt.hist(y, bins = 10)
plt.grid()
plt.show()
plt.hist(y, bins = 10)
plt.grid()
plt.show()
Let's get its standard deviation below:
statistics.pstdev(y)
0.9770684423061939
If we specify the value 10 as mu argument, the deviations will be calculated with respect to this value:
statistics.pstdev(y, mu = 10)
5.032367764622201
