This article was originally published on Built In by Eric Kleppen. Variance is a powerful statistic used in data analysis and machine learning. It is one of the four main measures of variability along ...

The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1990), pp. 149-153 (5 pages) We show that the jackknife technique fails badly when applied to the problem ...

In unreplicated multifactor designs, it is customary to nominate some factor interactions as not active-that is, to assume that they have no influence on the response-and to use the corresponding sums ...

While previous sections of this report have focused on the kinds of systematic biases that may be the largest worry when it comes to public opinion polls, the variance (or precision) of estimates is ...