NTTSTDEV

Returns standard deviation of a specified Student’s t distribution.

Syntax

NTTSTDEV(

  • N

)

 

Parameters

  • N is a parameter of the distribution N\;(>2).

Remarks

The standard deviation of the distribution is given as:

\sqrt{\frac{N}{N-2}}

Example

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