deviasi standar

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of deviasi (“deviation”) +‎ standar (“standard”), calque of Dutch standaarddeviatie (“standard deviation”), from English standard deviation. Coined by English mathematician Karl Pearson in 1894 in his paper "On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves".

Noun

deviasi standar

1. (statistics) synonym of simpangan baku (“standard deviation”)

Further reading

• “deviasi standar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016