There is a difference between an actual mean and actual standard
deviation (available only for a finite population) and a sampling
mean and sampling deviation
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On 27-Jun-07, at 3:32 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
And, because of the behavior of 'stddev' and 'SD' for contexts where
the answer is completely determined, I feel that SD is a better
metric when the number of samples is small.
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