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On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:13 +0800, Qixu Cai wrote:
> Dear Ed,
> 
> Why the variance is the square of standard deviation?
> 
> thank you very much!
> 
> 
> 在 2012年4月23日,20:53,Ed Pozharski <[email protected]> 写道:
> 
> > On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 12:47 +0530, Arka Chakraborty wrote:
> >> baverage program in ccp4 gave average bfactor of 25.0 for the residue
> >> but coot is showing 150! 
> > 
> > Variance is the square of standard deviation, thus var=150 means
> > sigmaB~12 in that particular residue.  High, but not impossible.
> > 
> > -- 
> > I don't know why the sacrifice thing didn't work.  
> > Science behind it seemed so solid.
> >                                    Julian, King of Lemurs

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                                                Julian, King of Lemurs

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