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MySQL's STDDEV(~) aggregate method returns the population standard deviation from the provided numeric input.
Parameters
1. expr | numeric
The numeric input to return the population standard deviation for.
Return value
The population standard deviation for the provided numeric input.
Examples
Consider the following table about some students:
student_id  | fname  | lname  | day_enrolled  | age  | username  | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1  | Sky  | Towner  | 2015-12-03  | 17  | stowner1  | 
2  | Ben  | Davis  | 2016-04-20  | 19  | bdavis2  | 
3  | Travis  | Apple  | 2018-08-14  | 18  | tapple3  | 
4  | Arthur  | David  | 2016-04-01  | 16  | adavid4  | 
5  | Benjamin  | Town  | 2014-01-01  | 17  | btown5  | 
The above sample table can be created using the code here.
Basic usage
To return the population standard deviation of students' age:
        
        
            
                
                
                    SELECT STDDEV(age) AS "Standard Deviation Age"FROM students;
                
            
            +------------------------+| Standard Deviation Age |+------------------------+|     1.0198039027185568 |+------------------------+
        
    Published by Arthur Yanagisawa
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 Official MySQL Documentation
                    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/group-by-functions.html#function_stddev
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