What does the standard deviation tell us?
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It is a distance which describes the range +/- from the mean containing a particular fraction of the values; it describes the shape of the bell curve.
What is variance?
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A measure of how much spread there is in the possible different outcomes.
What is the coefficient of variation?
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The standard deviation divided by the mean. If it's less than 1, the distribution is considered low-variance.