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In fact, even for any 20-year period, the standard deviation of stock returns from the average return--i.e.
Moreover, the first quintile stands apart in that its seconds per piece is also nearly two standard deviations greater than the mean, while the other four are all less than one standard deviation from the mean.
Similar plots, including a calculated standard deviation (SD) both before and after lowess correction, are shown in Figure 1c.
About 95% of the analyzed lengths differed less than 1 bp and about 50% differed less than 0.5 bp from the predicted lengths which by far exceeded the experimental deviations in repeated experiments (standard deviation of less than 0.2 bp, see below) and is in accordance to results from other authors [ 23 24 ] . These data demonstrated, that there is a reproducible but not yet predictable shift of the fragments within the polyacrylamide gel run.
The "mean Z" values, when significantly different from zero, indicate the direction of deviation from a random distribution; mean Z < 0 indicates aggregates are closer together than would be expected at random (cooperativity) while values > 0 indicate aggregates are further apart than expected (competition).