Unbiased sample standard deviation of one to five
Question
Treat the values as an i.i.d. sample and estimate the population standard deviation with the usual sample formula (using ). What do you get?
Short answer
. The mean is and the squared deviations sum to ; dividing by gives , whose square root is about .
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