{"id":13748,"date":"2016-01-03T03:01:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T03:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=13748"},"modified":"2016-01-03T03:01:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T03:01:20","slug":"windows-7-accessories-the-calculator-standard-deviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/windows-7-accessories-the-calculator-standard-deviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7:  accessories:  the calculator:  standard deviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor brings up another great find from the Windows Start menu.<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve rediscovered the Windows 7 calculator.  It can be opened by typing calc.exe into the search box (Start Menu), or else at the Command Prompt.  It&#8217;s also available from Start\u2192All Programs\u2192Accessories.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to calculate the standard deviation of a set of numbers, open the calculator, then click View and choose Statistics.  After keying in each number, click Add.  Then, to find the standard deviation that you prefer, click \u03c3<sub>n<\/sub> or \u03c3<sub>n-1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p>To enter a negative number, it seems, you must key the number first, then the \u00b1 key.  To clear all your entries, do a right click, then Clear dataset.<\/p>\n<p>I find the Statistics Mode of the Windows 7 calculator very simple and convenient.  I hope you&#8217;ll agree.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor brings up another great find from the Windows Start menu. I&#8217;ve rediscovered the Windows 7 calculator. It can be opened by typing calc.exe into the search box (Start Menu), or else at the Command Prompt. It&#8217;s also available &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/windows-7-accessories-the-calculator-standard-deviation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows 7:  accessories:  the calculator:  standard deviation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,105,1073,1009,904],"tags":[20,1317,1316],"class_list":["post-13748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calculator-usage","category-computer-science","category-computer-skills","category-home-computer-use","category-windows","tag-standard-deviation","tag-statistics-mode","tag-windows-7-calculator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13748"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13757,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748\/revisions\/13757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}