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Latest revision as of 22:52, 8 August 2012
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
In statistics, Bessel's correction, named after Friedrich Bessel, is the use of n − 1 instead of n when estimating variance, where n is the number of observations in a sample. n − 1 is used to correct for the fact that samples understate the variance in the population on average. See bias of an estimator.
References
- "Use and abuse of statistics" by W.J. Reichmann, 1968 reprint, appendix 8.
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