I am using two methods for computing the standard deviation of a dataset, which gives different results. Why is that so? With the package Distributions function fit() and with the ordinary function std() # Computing with the fit() function of the Distributions package println("mean and std dev …

Package Distributions gives different resullt for standard deviation

Dan June 7, 2017, 1:44pm 3

Most probably @kristoffer.carlsson is right especially if size(data,1) == 738

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