Update, 30 April 2009: OK, the good method mentioned in the links below, and in the final comment of mine below, is now implemented in LingPipe.
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Sample Variance Computation -- from Wolfram MathWorld
When computing the sample variance s numerically, the mean must be computed before s^2 can be determined. This requires storing the set of sample values. However, it is possible to ...
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Accurately computing running variance
How to accurately compute running variance and standard deviation.
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Computing Population Variance and Entropy under Interval ...
Computing Population Variance and Entropy under Interval Uncertainty: Linear-Time Algorithms Gang Xiang, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich Department of Computer Science ...
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Standard Deviation and Variance: Common Measures of Variability
By far the most common formula for computing variance in a sample is: which gives an unbiased estimate of σ². Since samples are usually used to estimate ...
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Computing Mean, Variance and Standard Deviation with Array
Computing Mean, Variance and Standard Deviation with Array Problem Statement The mean, variance and standard deviation of a set of data can be computed with the following ...
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Algorithms for calculating variance - Wikipedia ...
Algorithms for calculating variance play a major role in statistical computing. A key problem in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may ...
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Variance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In probability theory and statistics, the variance is used as one of several descriptors of a distribution. It describes how far values lie from the mean.
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Computing Variance under Interval Uncertainty: ANew Algorithm and ...
What is known: computing population variance under interval uncertainty. In contrast to the population mean, computing therangeVofthe population variance is NP-hard.
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