incorrect explanation of variance increase for exercise 2.27
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The exercise here: https://github.com/OpenIntroStat/openintro-statistics/blob/master/ch_summarizing_data/TeX/review_exercises.tex#L5
has a solution here:
But the justification is incorrect.
The update equation for the unbiased sample variance, supposing n-1
old measurements, and given the mean and sample variance on n-1
measurements, and a new n
th measurement is:
(you can see this is identical to the second equation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance#Welford's_online_algorithm)
So the critical value of x_n
so that the sample variance stays the same is
therefore, the there is a factor of 25/24
missing in the justification. I would submit a pull request, but I am not sure if the textbook covers these equations.