Post Reply 
Error in Statistics 1Var Report
01-26-2015, 06:16 PM
Post: #7
RE: Error in Statistics 1Var Report
I misunderstood the purpose of these two functions. I thought that the one with n for the divisor was the (biased) sample estimate and the one with n-1 was the (corrected, unbiased) population estimate. (I never saw any documentation stating their interpretation.) Now I understand that the population standard deviation is not an estimate and does not require any correction (simply divide by n).

So, the results in the app are correct and it is actually the case that the functions stddev() and stddevp() are switched?
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 


Messages In This Thread
RE: Error in Statistics 1Var Report - mark4flies - 01-26-2015 06:16 PM
RE: Error in Statistics 1Var Report - JimS - 01-26-2015, 10:51 PM



User(s) browsing this thread: 2 Guest(s)