Editing Standard deviation (section)

==Alternatives==
Standard deviation is [[algebra]]ically simpler,{{example needed|date=December 2024}} though in practice less [[Robust statistics|robust]], than the [[average absolute deviation]].<ref>{{cite journal
  | last = Gauss  | first = Carl Friedrich  | author-link = Carl Friedrich Gauss
  | title = Bestimmung der Genauigkeit der Beobachtungen
  | journal = Zeitschrift für Astronomie und Verwandte Wissenschaften
  | volume = 1  | pages = 187–197
  | year = 1816 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
  | last = Walker | first = Helen |author-link=Helen M. Walker| title = Studies in the History of the Statistical Method
  | publisher = Williams & Wilkins Co | year = 1931 | location = Baltimore, MD
  | pages = 24–25
}}</ref>