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Re: st: Mata Variance Calculation
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Tirthankar Chakravarty <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Mata Variance Calculation
Date
Sat, 15 May 2010 03:09:13 +0530
Yes. While the documentation does not tell you the exact formula, it
does tell you that the mean involved is calculated, which ends up
costing one degree of freedom in the variance calculation.
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clear*
mata
mA = runiform(100, 1)
quadvariance(mA)
sum((mA :-mean(mA)):^2)/rows(mA)
sum((mA :-mean(mA)):^2)/(rows(mA)-1)
end
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T
2010/5/15 Thomas Jacobs <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone confirm whether the variance function in mata is a sample
> value (with n-1 observations) as opposed to a population (with n
> observations) measure?
>
> IOTW, I have a column vector of 100 values and apply the variance
> function. Is n=99? From my own calculations it appears to be so but
> I wish to be sure and it is not stated in the documentation. Thanks.
>
> Tom
>
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