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Jos
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Re: Standard deviation
Posted:
Jan 28, 2013 9:42 AM
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"Paul " <paulrockt@gmx.de> wrote in message <ke61o4$4n8$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...
> Hi together,
> i calculate the standard deviaton in MATLAB and to the check the results i reculculated manually in MATLAB and Excel and i got different results. I split the formula in MATLAB to calculate the individual terms and as result i have received the same as in Excel. Is there a known problem with the standard deviation in MATLAB?
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> My example:
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> test = -18.2264 -17.7185 -15.4258 -15.4092
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> mean_test = -16.6950 <<< mean_test= mean(test)
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> sqr = 278.7222 <<< sqr= mean_test^2
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> test_sqr = 332.2018 313.9459 237.9556 237.4423 <<< test_sqr= test.^2
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> diff = 53.4796 35.2237 -40.7666 -41.2799 <<< diff = bsxfun(@minus,test_sqr,sqr)
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> sum = 6.6568 <<< summe = sum(diff(:))
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> norm = 1.6642 <<< norm = 0.25*summe
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> final = 1.2900 <<< final = norm^0.5
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> my results
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> in Excel: 1.2901
> in MATLAB (manually): 1.2900
> in MATLAB (with "stdev"): 1.0931
>
> Can someone explain this to me?
>
> Thanks,Paul
From the help of STD
" STD normalizes Y by (N-1), where N is the sample size. This is the
sqrt of an unbiased estimator of the variance of the population from
which X is drawn, as long as X consists of independent, identically
distributed samples.
Y = STD(X,1) normalizes by N and produces the square root of the second
moment of the sample about its mean.
"
Indeed, for your example, std(test,1) gives 1.29 ...
For more info see
doc std
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
hth
~ Jos
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