A number of the trials however reported the study using the median the minimum and maximum values andor the first and third quartiles. Select STDEVS for a sample from the the Statistical category. So we will skip step 1 2 and 3 and directly calculate step 4 and 5.
Gather all of your data.
N is the sample size. Calculate the mean standard deviation and variance. N size of the sample data set. The smaller the value of standard deviation the less the data in the set varies from the mean.