Metadata
- Author: Allen Downey
- Full Title:: Which Standard Deviation?
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://allendowney.substack.com/p/which-standard-deviation
- Finished date:: 2024-06-15
Highlights
Should we care? On one hand, it is impressive that such a simple correction yields a much better estimator. On the other hand, it almost never matters in practice. • If you have a large sample, the difference between the two versions is negligible. • If you have a small sample, you can’t make a precise estimate of the standard deviation anyway. (View Highlight)