Showing posts with label sums of squares. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sums of squares. Show all posts
Monday, November 26, 2012
Stats Videos (Why do you divide samples by n-1?)
Because FMRI analysis requires a strong statistical background, I've added a couple videos going over the basics of statistical inference, and I use both R and Excel to show the output of certain procedures. In this demo, I go over why the sums of squares of sample populations are divided by n-1; a concept not covered in many statistical textbooks, but an important topic for understanding both statistical inference and where degrees of freedom come from. This isn't a rigorous proof, just a demonstration of why dividing by n-1 is a unbiased estimation of sample variance.
Labels:
fMRI,
n-1,
population,
samples,
statistics,
sums of squares,
tutorials,
variance
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