Comparison of Several Algorithms for Computing Sample Means and Variances
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 69 (348) , 859
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2286154
Abstract
Several one-pass and two-pass algorithms for the computation of sample means and variances are compared by their performance on sets of randomly generated data and systematically generated data with random noise. The relation between the performance of each algorithm and the coefficient of variation of the population from which random data sets are generated is explored.Keywords
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