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Sigma vs Stigma - What's the difference?

sigma | stigma |

As nouns the difference between sigma and stigma

is that sigma is the name for the eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient while stigma is a mark of infamy or disgrace.

sigma

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The name for the eighteenth letter of the Classical]] and Modern Greek, the twentieth letter of Old and [[Ancient Greek, Ancient.
  • (mathematics) The symbol ? , used to indicate summation of a set or series.
  • (statistics) The symbol ? , used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution.
  • * 2011 , Paul Rincon, (bbc.co.uk) LHC: Higgs boson 'may have been glimpsed'
    • None of the spikes seen by the experiments is at much more than the "two sigma" level of certainty.
    A level of "five sigma" is required to claim a discovery, meaning there is less than a one in a million chance the data spike is down to a statistical fluke.

    Derived terms

    * sigmalike * within one sigma: the range from the mean, plus or minus one standard deviation, usually covering 68% of the data points in a normal distribution

    stigma

    English

    (wikipedia stigma)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Anglicised long stem) * (l) (Anglicised short stem, obsolete, rare)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A mark of infamy or disgrace.
  • A scar or birthmark.
  • (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
  • a ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, ().

    • Derived terms

    * stigmatize

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