Standard deviation of a list

Question

I want to find mean and standard deviation of 1st, 2nd,... digits of several (Z) lists. For example, I have

A_rank=[0.8,0.4,1.2,3.7,2.6,5.8]
B_rank=[0.1,2.8,         


        

Answer 1

In Python 2.7.1, you may calculate standard deviation using numpy.std() for:

• Population std: Just use numpy.std() with no additional arguments besides to your data list.
• Sample std: You need to pass ddof (i.e. Delta Degrees of Freedom) set to 1, as in the following example:

numpy.std(< your-list >, ddof=1)

The divisor used in calculations is N - ddof, where N represents the number of elements. By default ddof is zero.

It calculates sample std rather than population std.