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Rapid Calculation of Standard Deviations

Nature volume 164, page 718 (1949)Cite this article

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A GRAPHICAL method, even simpler than that described by Woolf1, of carrying out the major calculations in the determination of standard deviations can be suggested.

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  1. Woolf, B., Nature, 164, 360 (1949).

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  1. Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, Test House, Harefield, Middlesex

    G. S. SMITH

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SMITH, G. Rapid Calculation of Standard Deviations. Nature 164, 718 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164718a0

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