l, optional If this is set to True, the axes which are reduced are left in the result as dimensions with size one. With this option, the result will broadcast correctly against the original `a`. If this value is anything but the default it is passed through as-is to the relevant functions of the sub-classes. If these functions do not have a `keepdims` kwarg, a RuntimeError will be raised. where : array_like of bool, optional Elements to include in the standard deviation. See `~numpy.ufunc.reduce` for details. .. versionadded:: 1.22.0 Returns ------- standard_deviation : ndarray, see dtype parameter above. If `out` is None, return a new array containing the standard deviation, otherwise return a reference to the output array. If ddof is >= the number of non-NaN elements in a slice or the slice contains only NaNs, then the result for that slice is NaN. See Also -------- var, mean, std nanvar, nanmean :ref:`ufuncs-output-type` Notes ----- The standard deviation is the square root of the average of the squared deviations from the mean: ``std = sqrt(mean(abs(x - x.mean())**2))``. The average squared deviation is normally calculated as ``x.sum() / N``, where ``N = len(x)``. If, however, `ddof` is specified, the divisor ``N - ddof`` is used instead. In standard statistical practice, ``ddof=1`` provides an unbiased estimator of the variance of the infinite population. ``ddof=0`` provides a maximum likelihood estimate of the variance for normally distributed variables. 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, np.nan], [3, 4]]) >>> np.nanstd(a) 1.247219128924647 >>> np.nanstd(a, axis=0) array([1., 0.]) >>> np.nanstd(a, axis=1) array([0., 0.5]) # may vary rč