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- From: safarj@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jonah Emanuel Safar)
- Subject: Re: Introduction, or De-Muffining
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- References: <1992Dec19.021628.5169@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <4pp2lv=@rpi.edu> <1gutjlINNi4a@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec21.112536.4176@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:41:26 GMT
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- kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
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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.
-
- Besides, didn't someone say earlier that anything under 6' was to be
- considered 'small'? By that definition, we certainly do have a small
- sample set here. :)
-
- >--
- >the Crisco Kid: nasty pinko faggot agnostic pervert punk. idx009@uk.ac.cov.cck
-
- -Points
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- Jonah E. Safar R.P.I., Troy, NY EMail to:safarj@rpi.edu
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