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nomadreid
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Homework Statement
I teach a class of statistics with students who often do not have the types of calculators that can calculate standard deviation and who do not know how to program Excel, but do have access to the Internet. Googling "standard deviation calculator" on the Internet gives me calculators which are not for grouped data, so cannot be used to calculate if the data is in a frequency table with a large amount of data points in each category. Any alternatives?, short of programming it myself? (once in Windows Excel, once in Mac Excel)?
Homework Equations
For example,
http://ncalculators.com/statistics/mean-standard-deviation-calculator.htm
http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-deviation-calculator.html
http://easycalculation.com/statistics/standard-deviation.php
https://statistics.laerd.com/calculators/standard-deviation-sample-population-calculator.php
http://www.calculator.net/standard-deviation-calculator.html
The Attempt at a Solution
I have tried to find ways to "tweak" the input, but e.g. multiplying all the data by something gives me a sort of "uncertainty principle": I could get the mean right, but that would throw off the s.d.