In probability theory and statistics, the geometric standard deviation describes how spread out are a set of numbers whose preferred average is the geometric mean. For such data, it may be preferred to the more usual standard deviation. Note that unlike the usual, arithmetic standard deviation, the geometric standard is a multiplicative factor, and thus is unitless, rather than having the same units as the input values.
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