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Standard Deviation in LaTeX

Standard deviation measures the spread of a data set around its mean μ. This formula nests a summation inside a fraction inside a square root — a good test of how LaTeX groups nested expressions with braces.

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\sigma = \sqrt{\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{N} (x_i - \mu)^2}
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