Thread: Estimating Standard Deviation
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Old 09-27-2003, 11:13 AM
irchans irchans is offline
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Default Re: Estimating Standard Deviation
Bruce,

I must admit that I always used the N-1 formula without even thinking about it when I was trying to estimate standard deviation. I was quite surprised last week when the bias in that formula caused a problem with my work last week.



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