Last updated: November 5, 2022
The standard deviation (symbol is sigma – σ) is the measure of the spread of the data around the mean.
In this short tutorial, we’ll see how to calculate the standard deviation in Java.
Standard deviation is computed using the formula square root of ( ∑ ( Xi – ų ) ^ 2 ) / N, where:
We can easily calculate the standard deviation with the help of Java’s Math class:
public static double calculateStandardDeviation(double[] array) {
// get the sum of array
double sum = 0.0;
for (double i : array) {
sum += i;
}
// get the mean of array
int length = array.length;
double mean = sum / length;
// calculate the standard deviation
double standardDeviation = 0.0;
for (double num : array) {
standardDeviation += Math.pow(num - mean, 2);
}
return Math.sqrt(standardDeviation / length);
}Let’s test our methods:
double[] array = {25, 5, 45, 68, 61, 46, 24, 95};
System.out.println("List of elements: " + Arrays.toString(array));
double standardDeviation = calculateStandardDeviation(array);
System.out.format("Standard Deviation = %.6f", standardDeviation);The result will look like this:
List of elements: [25.0, 5.0, 45.0, 68.0, 61.0, 46.0, 24.0, 95.0]
Standard Deviation = 26.732179In this quick tutorial, we’ve learned how to calculate the standard deviation in Java.
As always, the example code from this article can be found over on GitHub.
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