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#16 Estimating Mean and Standard Deviation of Population artwork
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#16 Estimating Mean and Standard Deviation of Population

Social Research Methods by Armin Trost

Dec 1, 202018:53Science & Medicine

While we know the mean and standard deviation of our sample we don’t know the real ones. That’s why we estimate. There is a reason, why using n-1 instead of N when estimating standard deviation of the population based on...

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