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Old 11-14-2005, 06:09 PM
edtost edtost is offline
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Default Re: normal distibution standard deviation

well, you have:


for two observations of x, and know all parameters except for mu and sigma, which are the same for both observations. plug in numbers, solve for mu, set the expressions for mu equal to each other, solve for sigma.

edit: that's the pdf, so you actually have the integral of that for two observations.

edit edit: one of your observations is the mean. this makes the problem much easier.
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