I'm sorry, but my previous message, as often happens, some brackets were
wrong:
Here are the correct formulas:
sd = 1/n * sum((x-mean(x))^2) # (1)
sd = 1/(n-1) * sum((x-mean(x))^2) # (2)
This also occured in the last paragraph.
Dirk
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