Sheppard's correction

Sheppard's correction
/shep"euhrdz/, Statistics.
a method of correcting the bias in standard deviations and higher moments of distributions that arises from grouping values of the variable. Also called Sheppard's adjustment.
[named after William F. Sheppard (1863-1936), English statistician]

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