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RMS stands for 'root-mean-square' is a measure of the typical size of a varying quantity. It occurs in the n-denominator form of standard deviation (the RMS deviation from the mean)

RMS stands for 'root-mean-square' is a measure of the size of a varying quantity. It is a kind of power-mean, generalized mean, and Fréchet mean.

It occurs in the n-denominator form of standard deviation - the RMS deviation from the mean.

In statistics, the term most commonly occurs in the phrase "root mean square error" (with the common acronym "RMSE")

Please do not use this tag in questions about the rms package for R (for Regression Modeling Strategies).