Timeline for How do I evaluate standard deviation?
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| Feb 23, 2012 at 23:31 | vote | accept | Amarald | ||
| Feb 23, 2012 at 13:43 | comment | added | Macro | (+1) Just to add a bit to the remark "Standard deviations aren't 'good' or 'bad'" - having a predictor with large standard deviation can be "good" because, in regression, it's inversely related to the standard error of a regression coefficient estimate. On the other hand, if you're concerned with precision of a measurement, then a large standard deviation is "bad". I'm guessing the original poster's interest is closer to the former but it's not clear. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 13:36 | history | answered | Peter Flom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |