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: Btw, I don't understand your comment at the beginning since the problematic division is outside the loop. [[User:McKay|McKay]] ([[User talk:McKay|talk]]) 01:02, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
::: It should not say "else variance = 0". That implies the sample variance is 0 when ''n'' = 1. That is incorrect. The sample variance is undefined in that case. [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] ([[User talk:Michael Hardy|talk]]) 01:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 
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