Schätzen Sie die Varianz einer Population, wenn der Populationsmittelwert bekannt ist

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1n- -1ich(xich- -x¯)2xich- -x¯n- -1n
μx¯ . Also würde ich schätzen1ni(xiμ)2
But I can't find it anymore. Is it true? Can someone give me a pointer?

user2740
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Yes, it is true. In the language of statistics, we would say that if you have no knowledge of the population mean, then the quantity

1n1i=1n(xix¯)2

is unbiased, which simply means that it estimates the population variance correctly on average. But if you do know the population mean, there is no need to use an estimate for it- this is what the x¯ serves for-and the finite-sample correction that comes with it.

In fact, it can be shown that the quantity

1ni=1n(xiμ)2

is not only unbiased but also has lower variance than the quantity above. This is quite intuitive as part of the uncertainty has now been removed. So we use this one in this situation.

It is worth noting that the estimators will differ very little in large sample sizes and hence they are asymptotically equivalent.

JohnK
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