Home Forums Talk Free Talk 중학교 통계중에 지금 생각하니 분산인가 구하는것중에 N 인지 N-1 인지 헷갈리는게 있었는데…그때야 그냥 암기하면 됬는데…내가 이나이에도
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/100041/how-exactly-did-statisticians-agree-to-using-n-1-as-the-unbiased-estimator-for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbiased_estimation_of_standard_deviation
n-1 yield unbiased estimator. (subtract 1 because we estimate one parameter or sample mean is fixed)
vs
n yield maximum likelihood estmator.