M2one: Unbiased central moment estimates

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Unbiased central moment estimates

Description

Calculate unbiased estimates of central moments and their powers and products.

Usage

M2one(m2, n)

Arguments

m2	naive biased variance estimate m_2 = 1/n \sum_{i = 1}^n ((X_i - \bar{X})^2 for a vector X.
n	sample size.

Value

Unbiased variance estimate.

See Also

Other unbiased estimates: M2M3one(), M2M3two(), M2M4one(), M2M4two(), M2pow2one(), M2pow2two(), M2pow3one(), M2pow3two(), M2two(), M3one(), M3pow2one(), M3pow2two(), M3two(), M4one(), M4two(), M5one(), M5two(), M6one(), M6two()

Examples

n <- 10 
smp <- rgamma(n, shape = 3) 
for (j in 2:6) { 
  assign(paste("m", j, sep = ""), mean((smp - mean(smp))^j))
} 
M2one(m2, n)

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