Sheppard's correction
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Sheppard's correction
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In statistics, Sheppard's corrections are approximate corrections to estimates of moments computed from binned data. The concept is named after William Fleetwood Sheppard. Let m k be the measured kth moment, μ ^ k the corresponding corrected moment, and c the breadth of the class interval. No correction is necessary for the mean. The first few measured and corrected moments about the mean are then related as follows: When the data come from a normally distributed population, then binning and usi
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