Editing Standard deviation (section)

==History==
The term ''standard deviation'' was first used in writing by [[Karl Pearson]] in 1894, following his use of it in lectures.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dodge |first=Yadolah|author-link=Yadolah Dodge |year=2003 |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-920613-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000unse }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pearson |first=Karl |author-link=Karl Pearson |year=1894 |title=On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves |journal=[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A]] |volume=185 |pages=71–110|doi=10.1098/rsta.1894.0003|bibcode=1894RSPTA.185...71P |doi-access=free }}</ref> This was as a replacement for earlier alternative names for the same idea: for example, [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]] used ''mean error''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Miller |first=Jeff |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/ |title=Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics}}</ref>