On Mon, 22 May 2000 13:24:25 +1000, "Glen Barnett"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I assume you're talking about sample standard deviations,
>not population standard deviations (though interpretation
>of what it represents is similar).
>
> ...
>
>Note that the standard deviation can't exceed half the range
>(largest value minus smallest value).
That's true for the n denominator ("population standard deviation"),
but not for n-1 ("sample standard deviation"). For example, if your
sample is just the two points 0 and 1, the sample standard deviation
is 0.71, and the range is 1.
Duncan Murdoch
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