Calculate the mean of all data points. The mean is calculated by adding all the data points and dividing them by the number of data points.
Calculate the variance for each data point. The variance for each data point is calculated by subtracting the mean from the value of the data point.
Square the variance of each data point (from Step 2).
Sum of squared variance values (from Step 3).
Divide the sum of squared variance values (from Step 4) by the number of data points in the data set less 1.
Take the square root of the quotient (from Step 5) Since there are two variables in the formula (x;n) substitute those by x;y where n is the number of points in the graph Initial formula sqrt(sigma sum from
i=0 to n(xi -xm)2/(n-1) where xm is the mean data of a set xi is the value of the ith point