It is the estimate for s, the sample standard deviation.
In statistics, this is the symbol for the "Variance"
Mean is the average.
They are statistics of central tendency.
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It is the estimate for s, the sample standard deviation.
s is the standard deviation of a sample. It is difficult to know what you are asking. I will note that there is a statistical programming language called S-Plus, see "Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus, by Venables and Ripley. I also note that "s" is also used commonly in statistics as standard deviation of a sample. That's about all that comes to mind.
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In statistics, this is the symbol for the "Variance"
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Mean is the average.