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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2008.21.1.177

Calculating Sample Variance for the Combined Data  

Shin, Mi-Young (Dept. of Mathematics, The Catholic University of Korea)
Cho, Tae-Kyoung (Dept. of Statistics and Information Science, Dongguk University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.21, no.1, 2008 , pp. 177-182 More about this Journal
Abstract
There are times when we need more sample to achieve a more accurate estimator. Since these two sets of sample have the information about the same population, it is necessary to treat both as a single combined data. In this paper we present the unpooled sample variance for the combined data when we just know a sample mean and variance for the each data set without the raw data. It is shown that the pooled variance $s^2_p$ is always greater than the exact variance $s^2_t$ when ${\bar{x}}_n\;=\;{\bar{y}}_m$. And the difference of means for two data, ${\bar{x}}_n-{\bar{y}}_m}$, is larger, the difference of $s^2_p$ and $s^2_t$ is larger.
Keywords
Combined data; pooled variance; unpooled variance;
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