[R] Correlation discrepancy

Kohta Ishikawa quantumcorgi at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 13:37:18 CEST 2011


Divide by 8 leads biased estimator of covariance.
R cov function calculates unbiased estimator(divide by (sample size)-1).

Regards,
Kohta

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