Should that read "calculate the shortest distance" to the line?

Jun 22, 2021

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Now that we have a line for the mean, the next step is to calculate the distance between each point and the mean and then square this distance. Remember that our goal is to calculate the variation of those numbers, with respect to the mean. W…

A visual interpretation of the standard deviation

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Fahd Alhazmi

Should that read "calculate the shortest distance" to the line? According to fractals, technically there are an infinite number of distances to the line.

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