In statistics, Bessel's correction is the use of n − 1 instead of n in the formula for the sample variance and sample standard deviation, where n is the...

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Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801422485. Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1846). "Bessel's Tod" [Bessel's death]. Astronomische Nachrichten (in German)...

instead of n in the formula for the sample variance is known as Bessel's correction, which corrects the bias in the estimation of the population variance...

of the variance of the larger parent population. This is known as Bessel's correction. Roughly, the reason for it is that the formula for the sample variance...

Spherical Bessel functions with half-integer α {\displaystyle \alpha } are obtained when solving the Helmholtz equation in spherical coordinates. Bessel's equation...

requirement for Bessel's correction). If the weights are instead non-random (reliability weights[definition needed]), we can determine a correction factor to...

{\sum _{i=1}^{N}x_{i}^{2}-(\sum _{i=1}^{N}x_{i})^{2}/N}{N}}.} Using Bessel's correction to calculate an unbiased estimate of the population variance from...

include the sample variance and sample standard deviation. Without Bessel's correction (that is, when using the sample size n {\displaystyle n} instead...

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