In the context of the bell curve, or normal distribution, SD is used to describe how the data points are distributed around the mean. The standard deviation essentially shapes the bell curve ...

[AFP] The UN on Wednesday condemned a US-backed aid system in Gaza after 47 people were injured during a chaotic food distribution, where the Israeli military said it did not open fire at crowds.

the "fatter" a probability distribution will be. In finance, if something like an investment has a greater variance, it may be interpreted as more risky or volatile. Standard deviation is the ...

will be much closer to a normal distribution curve. Smaller sample sizes will correspond with smaller degrees of freedom and result in fatter t-distribution tails. In the examples above ...