On 6/26/07, Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Although in correlation the n-1 cancel out, statistical stddev
and cov should use sample variance, as the estimated mean is
used in E(X-E(X))^2 is one less degree of freedom.

I am rather dubious of any context where that's a significant
issue.

Anyways, if I had really wanted to represent traditional standard
deviation, I'd used STDDEV as a name, rather than SD.

--
Raul
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