RE: VaranceMLE Support
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- Subject: [mg86589] RE: VaranceMLE Support
- From: <brtubb at pdmusic.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:16:52 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: <brtubb at pdmusic.org>
According to the Mathematica 6.0.2 documentation, in reference to
"VarianceMLE":
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Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics` (Mathematica Compatibility
Information)
Functionality in this package has been added to the built-in
Mathematica kernel. Mode is replaced by the kernel function
Commonest.
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> On Mar 13, 4:35 am, mante <claude.ma... at univmed.fr> wrote:
>> Variance[] is an *unbiassed* estimator of the variance. The
estimator
>> you are talking about was named VarianceMLE[] in version5, but
seems
>> to have disappeared!
>>
>> don = Table[RandomReal[], {5}];
>> Variance[don]
>> Biassed = Mean[(don - Mean@don)^2]
UB=Biassed*Length@don/(Length@don
>> - 1)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Claude
>>
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