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Which describes the standard deviation?

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standard deviation is used to measure risks involved in an investment instrument. Standard deviation provides investors a mathematical basis for decisions to be made regarding their investment in financial market. Standard Deviation is a common term used in deals involving stocks, mutual funds, ETFs and others. Standard Deviation is also known as volatility. It gives a sense of how dispersed the data in a sample is from the mean.

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It is a form of measurement of the average difference between sample values and the sample mean.
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