in reply to Annoying error although module is installed

stddev() is not a built-in function, it is a function provided by the module. From looking at the docs that module does not export any functions by default so you will need to import them before using them:
# you can remove this line use Statistics::Basic::StdDev; # add this line use Statistics::Basic qw(:all);
You can then use all the functions in your script.