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- From: kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker)
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- Subject: Re: Introduction, or De-Muffining
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.112536.4176@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 11:25:36 GMT
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- In article <1gutjlINNi4a@agate.berkeley.edu> mlloyd@ocf.berkeley.edu (M. Lloyd) writes:
- >safarj@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jonah Emanuel Safar) writes:
- >>S.D.: 6 2/3" (For small samples, remember, divide by n-1)
- > ^^^^^
- >Splutter?! Remove that word this instant. The only situation where
- >division by n is appropriate is if you have sampled the whole
- >population. Now in Joe's case, I might have believed this had happened,
- >or will soon :-)
-
- Why, Mike? where n is large, the difference between n and n-1 is
- so small that it makes (asymptotically) no difference; at least, that's
- how my A-level stats teacher explained it.
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- the Crisco Kid: nasty pinko faggot agnostic pervert punk. idx009@uk.ac.cov.cck
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