Re: st: Mata Variance Calculation

[Thomas Jacobs <thomasjacobs@gmail.com>]

Tirthankar,

Thanks very much!

Tom

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Tirthankar Chakravarty
<tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. While the documentation does not tell you the exact formula, it
> does tell you that the mean involved is calculated, which ends up
> costing one degree of freedom in the variance calculation.
> ***************************
> clear*
> mata
> mA = runiform(100, 1)
> quadvariance(mA)
> sum((mA :-mean(mA)):^2)/rows(mA)
> sum((mA :-mean(mA)):^2)/(rows(mA)-1)
> end
> ***************************
>
> T
>
> 2010/5/15 Thomas Jacobs <thomasjacobs@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone confirm whether the variance function in mata is a sample
>> value (with n-1 observations) as opposed to a population (with n
>> observations) measure?
>>
>> IOTW, I have a column vector of 100 values and apply the variance
>> function.  Is n=99?  From my own calculations it appears to be so but
>> I wish to be sure and it is not stated in the documentation.  Thanks.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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