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DSTDEVP function in Google Sheets

Returns the standard deviation of an entire population selected from a database table-like array or range using a SQL-like query.

=DSTDEVP(database, field, criteria)

DSTDEVP syntax and parameters

Three arguments, three required.

  • databasearrayRequired

    The array or range containing the data to consider, structured in such a way that the first row contains the labels for each column's values.

  • fieldanyRequired

    Indicates which column in database contains the values to be extracted and operated on. field may either be a text label corresponding to a column header in the first row of database or a numeric index indicating which column to consider, where the first column has the value 1.

  • criteriaarrayRequired

    An array or range containing zero or more criteria to filter the database values by before operating.

DSTDEVP examples

Formulas you'll actually reuse.

  1. Population standard deviation — when the rows ARE the whole population:

    =DSTDEVP(A1:E200, "Amount", G1:G2)

  2. The same for the big West orders only:

    =DSTDEVP(A1:E200, 4, G1:H2)

DSTDEVP in Excel

Same name — your formula ports as-is.

Try DSTDEVP in the playground

Edit the example — nothing to install.

Preloaded with the DSTDEVP formula from Example 1 — change anything and watch it respond.

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