iables. The standard deviation computed in this function is the square root of the estimated variance, so even with ``ddof=1``, it will not be an unbiased estimate of the standard deviation per se. Note that, for complex numbers, `std` takes the absolute value before squaring, so that the result is always real and nonnegative. For floating-point input, the *std* is computed using the same precision the input has. Depending on the input data, this can cause the results to be inaccurate, especially for float32 (see example below). Specifying a higher-accuracy accumulator using the `dtype` keyword can alleviate this issue. Examples -------- >>> a = np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4]]) >>> np.std(a) 1.1180339887498949 # may vary >>> np.std(a, axis=0) array([1., 1.]) >>> np.std(a, axis=1) array([0.5, 0.5]) In single precision, std() can be inaccurate: >>> a = np.zeros((2, 512*512), dtype=np.float32) >>> a[0, :] = 1.0 >>> a[1, :] = 0.1 >>> np.std(a) 0.45000005 Computing the standard deviation in float64 is more accurate: >>> np.std(a, dtype=np.float64) 0.44999999925494177 # may vary Specifying a where argument: >>> a = np.array([[14, 8, 11, 10], [7, 9, 10, 11], [10, 15, 5, 10]]) >>> np.std(a) 2.614064523559687 # may vary >>> np.std(a, where=[[True], [True], [False]]) 2.0 rą