| Article ID: | iaor201522382 |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 81 |
| End Page Number: | 82 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Trafimow David |
| Keywords: | statistics: general |
The standard deviation is related to the mean by virtue of the coefficient of variation. Teachers of statistics courses can make use of that fact to make the standard deviation more comprehensible for statistics students.