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| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/core/src/arraymethods.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/src/arraymethods.c b/numpy/core/src/arraymethods.c index 757df2ef5..c01d3db4b 100644 --- a/numpy/core/src/arraymethods.c +++ b/numpy/core/src/arraymethods.c @@ -1385,7 +1385,13 @@ array_all(PyArrayObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds) return PyArray_All(self, axis); } -static char doc_stddev[] = "a.std(axis=None, dtype=None)"; +static char doc_stddev[] = "a.std(axis=None, dtype=None)\n" +"Return the standard deviation, a measure of the spread of a distribution.\n" +"\n" +"The standard deviation is the square root of the average of the squared\n" +"deviations from the mean, i.e. std = sqrt(mean((x - x.mean())**2)).\n" +"\n" +"For multidimensional arrays, std is computed by default along the first axis.\n"; static PyObject * array_stddev(PyArrayObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds) |