Comparison of Standard Deviations
Example of two samples with the same mean and different standard deviations. The red sample has a mean of 100 and a SD of 10; the blue sample has a mean of 100 and a SD of 50. Each sample has 1,000 values drawn at random from a Gaussian distribution with the specified parameters.
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