topic Re: Calculating Standard Deviation in Discussions https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Calculating-Standard-Deviation/m-p/17147#M15638 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes, unless you specify a distribution model.</P><P>When I have specific distribution model for a column, I save that as a column property.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://www.jmp.com/support/help/Fit_Distributions.shtml" title="http://www.jmp.com/support/help/Fit_Distributions.shtml">http://www.jmp.com/support/help/Fit_Distributions.shtml</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:13:39 GMT Byron_JMP 2016-02-25T16:13:39Z Calculating Standard Deviation https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Calculating-Standard-Deviation/m-p/17146#M15637 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all.</P><P></P><P>I have a question about JMP and calculating standard deviation.</P><P><BR />From my understanding about statistics, there are different formulas to calculate stand deviation for different types of distribution (normal or gamma for example).&nbsp; When I am use JMP to calculate standard deviation, does it always assume that my data has a normal distribution?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:39:34 GMT https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Calculating-Standard-Deviation/m-p/17146#M15637 natalie_ 2016-02-25T15:39:34Z Re: Calculating Standard Deviation https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Calculating-Standard-Deviation/m-p/17147#M15638 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes, unless you specify a distribution model.</P><P>When I have specific distribution model for a column, I save that as a column property.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://www.jmp.com/support/help/Fit_Distributions.shtml" title="http://www.jmp.com/support/help/Fit_Distributions.shtml">http://www.jmp.com/support/help/Fit_Distributions.shtml</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:13:39 GMT https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Calculating-Standard-Deviation/m-p/17147#M15638 Byron_JMP 2016-02-25T16:13:39Z Re: Calculating Standard Deviation https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Calculating-Standard-Deviation/m-p/17148#M15639 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you and sorry for the delay.</P><P></P><P>This was very helpful.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:42:32 GMT https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Calculating-Standard-Deviation/m-p/17148#M15639 natalie_ 2016-03-09T21:42:32Z