pandas.Series.std

Series.std(axis=None, skipna=None, level=None, ddof=1, numeric_only=None, **kwargs)

Return sample standard deviation over requested axis.

Normalized by N-1 by default. This can be changed using the ddof argument

Parameters:

axis : {index (0)} skipna : boolean, default True Exclude NA/null values. If an entire row/column is NA, the result will be NA level : int or level name, default None If the axis is a MultiIndex (hierarchical), count along a particular level, collapsing into a scalar ddof : int, default 1 degrees of freedom numeric_only : boolean, default None Include only float, int, boolean data. If None, will attempt to use everything, then use only numeric data

Returns:

std : scalar or Series (if level specified)