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Re: Simulation for the standard deviation
Posted:
Feb 21, 2013 12:46 AM
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:54:26 +0100, Cristiano <cristiapi@NSgmail.com>
wrote:
>Short question: does anybody know how to calculate the confidence
>interval of the standard deviation for the uniform distribution?
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>Long version.
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> From a population of iid real numbers (double precision C++ type) I
>randomly pick many numbers with replacement and I calculate the standard
>deviation of those numbers.
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>I repeat many times the above procedure to obtain many values of the
>standard deviation.
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>Then, I calculate the 10th percentile of the standard deviations.
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>What's that percentile? I'm aware that it's not a confidence limit.
>How do I calculate the CI via simulation?
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I think I would call it a Monte Carlo estimate of the one-sided CI.
Assuming that you are describing a recommended procedure for
boot-strapping, that seems like the way to simulate that CI.
You could assume that the mean is known (since it is) and
calculate the SDs while dividing by N instead of N-1, using
that mean.
--
Rich Ulrich
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