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- From: luke@cs.city.ac.uk (Luke Whitaker)
- Subject: Calculating variances
- Message-ID: <luke.722264309@barney>
- Keywords: variance
- Sender: news@city.cs (News)
- Organization: City University
- Date: 20 Nov 92 12:58:29 GMT
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- I am trying to develop some ideas around contingency tables and entropy,
- and have come up with some measures which I think are quite useful,
- but the problem is that I have no idea in general how to compute variances for
- these measures.
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- It seems that the only general rule for computing variances is for the sum or
- difference of random variables (ie var(x+/-y) = var(x) + var(y)). What about
- products, reciprocals and other arbitrary combinations of random variables.
- I realise that this is non-trivial and that there is no simple answer as
- there is for sums and differences but there must be techniques to get a
- handle on this.
-
- Could someone point me in the right direction, references etc for this problem.
-
- thanks,
-
- Luke
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-