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Re: standard deviation accuracy question

by tlm (Prior)
on Jul 22, 2005 at 16:07 UTC ( [id://477274]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to standard deviation accuracy question

The code you posted does not compute the sample standard deviation, which is what Excel is computing. You need to make the N – 1 correction. (I.e. before taking the square root, multiply everything by N/(N–1)).

Or you can use the code I posted in my other reply in this thread (though yours, with the correction, is probably more efficient).

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