State some important merits of standard deviation. - Vidyadip

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State some important merits of standard deviation.

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Some important merits of standard deviation are:

It is based on all values of the series.
It is an exact and definite measure of dispersion.
It is least affected by fluctuations in sampling because samples are based on all values of the series.
It is suitable for further algebraic treatment.

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