The title of this page is, "Unbiased estimate of population variance", but doesn't this program measure the biased estimate?

as the title says, it is about "estimating" the unbiased value using biased value. with sample sizes from 2 to 10, it shows a relation of (n-1)/n between the two, resulting in the division with the "n-1". for a sample size of 2 this is 1/2, and of 3 gives 2/3 and so on. it becomes "unbiased = biased *n/(n-1)" or simply the equation with "n-1" as the denominator.

In Population, N=463 but sample Size Vs variance has samples in thousands ?? How come it is possible?

think about how many groups (=samples) of 2, 3, 4...or 10 you could build out of 463! Lets say it would be 463 people and you build groups of 2. How many different groups could you build? Combinatorics say 463C2, which is 463*462/2 which is 106,953 possibilities. But then you can also build groups of 3, of 4... and so on. There is a lot of possibilities to build samples!

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Jei-Cyn Kendrick
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The title of this page is, "Unbiased estimate of population variance", but doesn't this program measure the biased estimate?
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- Yılmaz Durmaz
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  as the title says, it is about "estimating" the unbiased value using biased value. with sample sizes from 2 to 10, it shows a relation of (n-1)/n between the two, resulting in the division with the "n-1". for a sample size of 2 this is 1/2, and of 3 gives 2/3 and so on. it becomes "unbiased = biased *n/(n-1)" or simply the equation with "n-1" as the denominator.
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Ashik Gurung
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So what I'm getting is that the n-1 unbiased formula describes the phenomenon where the sample variance estimate is closer to population variance using n-1 than n. However, I don't understand why this phenomenon occurs? Why does using n to divide cause an underestimation in the first place?
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In Population, N=463 but sample Size Vs variance has samples in thousands ?? How come it is possible?
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- Lucia Christians
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  think about how many groups (=samples) of 2, 3, 4...or 10 you could build out of 463! Lets say it would be 463 people and you build groups of 2. How many different groups could you build? Combinatorics say 463C2, which is 463*462/2 which is 106,953 possibilities. But then you can also build groups of 3, of 4... and so on. There is a lot of possibilities to build samples!
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how do i find the variance of classified data?
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how do i find the variance of classified data?
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Can a population data be less than the sample data ?
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yeap this is biased one
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What is this can someone explain?
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