Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know is what the "typical" element of the set looks like, or where the middle of the set is. We do this by finding a mean ...

Standard deviation is a measurement of market volatility. Learn how investors use standard deviation in the MoneySense Glossary. Standard deviation (σ) is an investing metric used to measure the ...

The mean ping time reveals the typical round-trip duration. Standard deviation indicates how much ping times vary from the mean. More pings may mean more accurate results, but the distribution of ping ...

You may know your way around the registers of that favorite microcontroller, but at some point you’ll also need to wield some ninja-level math skills to manage arrays of data on a small device. [Scott ...