What is the usage of the std function in MATLAB?

In MATLAB, the ‘std’ function is used to calculate the standard deviation of a data set. The standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of a data set, indicating how much the data points deviate from the average of the data set.

The standard syntax is: std(X), where X is a vector, matrix, or multi-dimensional array containing data. The std function calculates the standard deviation of X, returning the standard deviation value for a vector and the standard deviation of each column for a matrix or multi-dimensional array.

For example, for a vector x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], using std(x) will return 2.2361, indicating that the standard deviation of this set of data is 2.2361.

Additionally, the std function can also accept an additional parameter to specify the dimension for calculating the standard deviation. For example, std(X,0) will calculate the standard deviation for each column of data, while std(X,1) will calculate it for each row of data.