In the calculation of the standard deviation, what are the differences between each data value and the

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In the calculation of the standard deviation, what are the differences between each data value and the mean squared before they are summed? What would happen in every of data if these differences were summed but not squared?
Distribution
The word "distribution" has several meanings in the financial world, most of them pertaining to the payment of assets from a fund, account, or individual security to an investor or beneficiary. Retirement account distributions are among the most...