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Problem 222 of 333MediumStatisticsP222
Which divisor for the sample variance?
Let be i.i.d. with mean and variance , and let .
(a) Compute . Which constant makes an unbiased estimator of ?
(b) Now assume the data are normal. Which minimizes the mean squared error ?
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