From a6fb5c15dd877a9231b3b914fb9afdb2aed3a241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: asmwarrior Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 08:31:07 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update 03-Gaussians.ipynb Fix a typo. "is is" should be "it is". --- 03-Gaussians.ipynb | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/03-Gaussians.ipynb b/03-Gaussians.ipynb index a176b47..852e4fb 100644 --- a/03-Gaussians.ipynb +++ b/03-Gaussians.ipynb @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ "\n", "Maybe we can use the absolute value? We can see by inspection that the result is $12/4=3$ which is certainly correct — each value varies by 3 from the mean. But what if we have $Y=[6, -2, -3, 1]$? In this case we get $12/4=3$. $Y$ is clearly more spread out than $X$, but the computation yields the same variance. If we use the formula using squares we get a variance of 3.5 for $Y$, which reflects its larger variation.\n", "\n", - "This is not a proof of correctness. Indeed, Carl Friedrich Gauss, the inventor of the technique, recognized that is is somewhat arbitrary. If there are outliers then squaring the difference gives disproportionate weight to that term. For example, let's see what happens if we have $X = [1,-1,1,-2,3,2,100]$." + "This is not a proof of correctness. Indeed, Carl Friedrich Gauss, the inventor of the technique, recognized that it is somewhat arbitrary. If there are outliers then squaring the difference gives disproportionate weight to that term. For example, let's see what happens if we have $X = [1,-1,1,-2,3,2,100]$." ] }, {