Re: stat: standard deviation

[Jonathan T. <jt...@as...>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 08:21:21AM +0200, pl...@pi... wrote:
> Is there any difficulty in simply providing both, clearly labelled 
> sample SD and population SD. This forces anyone who does not know what 
> that means to find out ( or if the difference is small carry on 
> regardless ).  Relevant assumptions made about the population, degrees 
> of freedom etc explained in help.

I strongly agree -- this option provides the most useful information
for users who *do* know what's going on, and avoids misleading the unwary.

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