Calculate Standard Deviation in JavaScript
Standard deviation is a measure of how far a set of numbers deviates from the average. Small standard deviation means the numbers are all relatively close to the mean. JavaScript doesn't have a built-in standard deviation function, but Math.js is a well supported library with a full featured standard deviation function.
Here's an example of using Math.js' std() function to calculate standard deviation.
const math = require('mathjs');
// Can pass an array to the `stddev()` function:
math.std([5, 5, 5, 5]); // 0
// Or a list of arguments (also called a "spread")
math.std(1, 5, 9); // 4Math.js also has support for bias correction. Math.js' std() function uses Bessel's correction by default, but takes a 2nd argument normalization for configuring this. By default, given an array of length n, the std() function divides the variance by n - 1. You can pass 'uncorrected' to make std() divide by n, or 'biased' to make std() divide by n + 1.
const math = require('mathjs');
// Must pass an array if you're using options
math.std([1, 3], 'uncorrected'); // 1
math.std([2, 4, 6, 8], 'biased'); // 2