I have a series of values. Can I modify them in a consistent manner such that it's mean remain the same but standard deviation increase by 1? 1 is just arbitrary in this example
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Can I increase the standard deviation of a series without increasing its mean?
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You can insert mean $\pm c$ which won't change the mean but will change the variance by a calculatable amount in terms of $c$ and the original population size.
Note this only works on probability distributions on finite sets.