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STATS

Purpose:

Calculates and displays the arithmetic mean and the standard deviation.

Syntax:

STATS(series, first, points)

series

-

Optional. Any series or expression resulting in a series. Defaults to the current Window.

first

-

Optional. An integer, the first point to include in the calculation of the statistics. Defaults to 1.

points

-

Optional. An integer, the number of points to include in the calculation. Defaults to the number of points from first to the end of the series.

Returns:

A string.

Example:

stats(gsin(100,0.1),10,50)

 

displays  Mean = 9.50+E-016 Standard Deviation = 0.7143.

Remarks:

Strictly a reporting function. Use MEAN and STDEV in expressions.

 

See STATSUM to compute summary statistics for one or more series.

See Also:

KURTOSIS

MEAN

PERCENTILE

SKEW

STATSUM

STDERR

STDEV