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In descriptive statistics, there are two computational algorithms for determining the variance S2, of a set of observations :
Algorithm 1: S2= - ,
Algorithm 2: S2= ,
where . It is interesting to discuss, which of the above formulas is numerically more trustworthy in machine numbers sets. I this paper, based on total effect of rounding error, we prove that the second Algorithm is better than the first Algorithm. Numerical experiments show the efficiency of Algorithm 2.
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