Name

DEVSQ

Synopsis

Use DEVSQ to find the sum of the squares of the deviations of a series of numeric values from the mean of the values.

To Calculate

=DEVSQ(Number1, Number2, ...)

There must be at least one Number argument specified for the function.

Example

Figure 15-11 shows how DEVSQ takes a list of numeric values and finds the sum of the squares of the deviations between the series of numeric values.

DEVSQ finds the sum of squaring the deviations between numeric values

Figure 15-11. DEVSQ finds the sum of squaring the deviations between numeric values

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