Date:         Sun, 6 Jan 2008 09:01:52 -0500
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From:         Art Kendall <Arthur.Kendall@verizon.net>
Subject:      Re: can SD be greater than AM?
Comments: To: Pushpender Nath <pushpendernath@gmail.com>
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An AM can be a negative number.  An SD cannot.

There is example syntax below the sig block.

Save all your current work, then open a new instance of SPSS. Make sure
that you put warnings, etc. into the output file. <edit> <options>
<viewer>. Cut-and-paste then run the syntax.
try it again using this data
10 10
10 30
1 21

and again using this data

10 10
10 30
1  10000

Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants



data list list/ wgt (f3) score(f5).
begin data
10 -10
10 10
1 1
end data.
weight by wgt.
descriptives score / statistics= all.

Pushpender Nath wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen
> Good Day!
> I have a question in my mind. I want to know "Whether Standard Deviation can
> be greater than Arithmatic Mean?"
> I asked this to many fellows. Some say yes , some say no. The fellows who
> say yes, could never give me any example.
> I suppose, SD can never be greater than AM. Am I right? If not then please
> give me some data example.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Pushpender Nath
> +91 9904948425
>
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