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Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation
The notion of standard deviation has confused hordes of scientists; it is time to retire it from common use and replace it with the more effective one of mean deviation. Standard deviation, STD, should be left to mathematicians, physicists and mathematical statisticians deriving limit theorems. There is no scientific…
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Math & AlgorithmsScience & Space2014
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jan 15, 2014 | Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation by pyduan | 248 | 244 |
| May 20, 2016 | Standard deviation is ready for retirement: Nassim Taleb (2014) by chollida1 | 223 | 120 |
