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From: @nnoporc| @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (PatrickT)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 01:37:00 +0800
Subject: [Rd] Documentation for sd (stats) + suggestion
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Oh thanks, missed that. I expected the explanation to be near the top under
"Description." I may have scanned for the word "sample", which doesn't
appear. I could have searched harder. Apologies for the noise.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:59 PM S Ellison <S.Ellison at lgcgroup.com> wrote:

> > As far as I can tell, the manual help page for ``sd``
> >
> > ?sd
> >
> > does not explicitly mention that the formula for the standard deviation
> is
> > the so-called "Bessel-corrected" formula (divide by n-1 rather than n).
>
> See Details, where it says
> "Details:
>
>      Like 'var' this uses denominator n - 1.
> "
>
>
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[Rd] Documentation for sd (stats) + suggestion
PatrickT