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What is the difference between sigmalike and sigma?

sigmalike | sigma | Derived terms |

Sigmalike is a derived term of sigma.

sigmalike

Not English

Sigmalike has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'sigmalike':

signalize, signalese, signalise, signalase

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