Greek Small Letter Sigma

σ
Symbol Format Data
σ Code Point
U+03C3
TeX
\sigma
SVG
All symbols

Usage

The Greek letter (sigma) is used in statistics to represent the standard deviation of a population.

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The capital Greek letter Σ (Sigma) is used in algebra to represent the summation operator.

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Standard Deviation

The standard deviation formula calculates the standard deviation of population data. The standard deviation value is denoted by the symbol σ (sigma) and measures how far the data is distributed around the population's mean.