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correction to algorithm shown by AlexC
Incorrect Algorithm?
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-- aj504@york.ac.uk who still hasn't got a wikipedia account :)
 
== Incorrect Algorithm? ==
 
The second algorithm doesn't look right to me. At each step it's calculating the variance of data[i] with respect to the *average so far*, not the true average.
 
Can someone confirm that I'm not just reading it wrong?