Traders and analysts use a number of metrics to assess the volatility and relative risk of potential investments, but one of the most common is standard deviation. Read on to find out more about ...

Standard deviation is a concept that's thrown around frequently in finance. So what is it? When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know is what the "typical ...

filadendron / Getty Images Standard deviation and variance are two basic mathematical concepts that have an important place in various parts of the financial sector, from accounting to economics ...

Somewhere back in your middle school and high school math classes, you no doubt learned about the mean and standard deviation as fairly fundamental concepts in arithmetic and statistics.

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 ...

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 ...

Standard deviation is a common statistical measurement and is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as: ‘A quantity expressing by how much the members of a group differ from the mean value for the ...