RFC: add support for computing the standard deviation of a double-precision floating-point strided array ignoring NaN values and using Welford's algorithm

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This RFC proposes adding support for computing the standard deviation of a double-precision floating-point strided array ignoring NaN values and using Welford's algorithm. This would be a lower-level strided interface which includes a native C implementation and has the following package name:

Package: @stdlib/stats/base/dnanstdevwd
Related: @stdlib/stats/base/dstdevwd
Dependencies: @stdlib/stats/base/dnanvariancewd

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