Standard deviation

Quality:

Standard deviation - dispersion of the values ​​of a random variable around its expected value. Article “Standard deviation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 45.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 186^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4184^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 548^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5012^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9792^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Standard deviation”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4184^th place) and edited by 2545 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 76 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10628 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #107 in May 2008
• Global: #707 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #54 in October 2019
• Global: #201 in October 2013

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Portuguese (pt) Desvio padrão		93.3706
2	English (en) Standard deviation		66.375
3	French (fr) Écart type		58.7613
4	Spanish (es) Desviación típica		56.1
5	Chinese (zh) 標準偏差		52.3587
6	Greek (el) Τυπική απόκλιση		51.9498
7	Polish (pl) Odchylenie standardowe		49.4859
8	Tamil (ta) நியமவிலகல்		46.0923
9	Simple English (simple) Standard deviation		45.6943
10	Hindi (hi) मानक विचलन		45.5995

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Standard deviation		61 307 785
2	Spanish (es) Desviación típica		11 719 664
3	Japanese (ja) 標準偏差		8 353 357
4	French (fr) Écart type		6 939 476
5	Russian (ru) Среднеквадратическое отклонение		5 233 529
6	Chinese (zh) 標準偏差		4 226 204
7	Italian (it) Scarto quadratico medio		4 105 093
8	Portuguese (pt) Desvio padrão		3 971 948
9	Polish (pl) Odchylenie standardowe		3 849 886
10	Dutch (nl) Standaardafwijking		1 965 436

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Standard deviation		52 286
2	French (fr) Écart type		9 664
3	Russian (ru) Среднеквадратическое отклонение		6 206
4	Japanese (ja) 標準偏差		4 668
5	Chinese (zh) 標準偏差		4 580
6	Spanish (es) Desviación típica		3 545
7	Polish (pl) Odchylenie standardowe		2 934
8	Italian (it) Scarto quadratico medio		2 725
9	Persian (fa) انحراف معیار		1 655
10	Dutch (nl) Standaardafwijking		1 604

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Standard deviation		900
2	French (fr) Écart type		200
3	Spanish (es) Desviación típica		169
4	Italian (it) Scarto quadratico medio		107
5	Russian (ru) Среднеквадратическое отклонение		98
6	Chinese (zh) 標準偏差		86
7	Dutch (nl) Standaardafwijking		72
8	Portuguese (pt) Desvio padrão		67
9	Japanese (ja) 標準偏差		66
10	Polish (pl) Odchylenie standardowe		61

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Standard deviation		4
2	Spanish (es) Desviación típica		2
3	Arabic (ar) انحراف معياري		1
4	Persian (fa) انحراف معیار		1
5	Hebrew (he) סטיית תקן		1
6	Japanese (ja) 標準偏差		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Стандартне відхилення		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Orta kvadratik meyl		0
9	Belarusian (be) Сярэдняе квадратовае адхіленне		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Стандартно отклонение		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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