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01-15-2012, 06:40 PM

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STDEV minimum number of points

Hi --

The way Excel computes standard deviation for a sample (STDEV, not STDEVP), does anyone know what the minimum number of points is required to get a statistically valid standard deviation? Didn't really see any explanation about this in Excel help.

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