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st: Unbiased standard deviation in summarize
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Daniel Almar de Sneijder <[email protected]>
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st: Unbiased standard deviation in summarize
Date
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:00:24 -0500
Hello STATA,
First of all, my initial guess is that the computed standard deviation in
STATA does not correct for possible biases. However I am not sure as I
havent found any good documentation on this issue. My questions are:
1. Does anybody know whether the standard deviations, computed with the
command summarize, are unbiased?
2. If so, how can I correct for this?
Thank you.
Daniel
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