Re: [sage-support] standard deviations in sage

2010-04-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 7, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Kenneth A. Ribet wrote: Hello All, I asked myself how I could use sage to compute the standard deviation of a grade distribution for one of my courses. Rooting around, I found that I can compute for example sage: vector(RDF,[1,2,2,1]).standard_deviation() and

[sage-support] standard deviations in sage

2010-04-07 Thread Kenneth A. Ribet
Hello All, I asked myself how I could use sage to compute the standard deviation of a grade distribution for one of my courses. Rooting around, I found that I can compute for example sage: vector(RDF,[1,2,2,1]).standard_deviation() and get the answer 0.57735026919. However, if I try the same