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An accurate updating formula to calculate sample variance from weighted successive differences

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  • Sun, Tien-Lung
  • Lo, Kuo-Hung
  • Chen, Juei-Chao

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We proposed and proved a new variance updating formula that is based on successive differences. Performance evaluation using StRD and other testing datasets shows that our formula is advantageous in handling integer data and floating point data with larger stiffness.

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  • Sun, Tien-Lung & Lo, Kuo-Hung & Chen, Juei-Chao, 2016. "An accurate updating formula to calculate sample variance from weighted successive differences," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 14-19.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:114:y:2016:i:c:p:14-19
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2016.03.003
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