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Fundamental Formulas

Symbol Full Name Formula
$\overline{x}$ Sample average of $x_{i}$ $\Sigma x_{i}$ / n
SSX or $ss_{XX}$ Corrected sum of squares for $x_{i}$ $\Sigma (x_{i} - \overline{x})^{2}$
    $\Sigma x_{i}^{2} - n \overline{x}^2$
    $\Sigma x_{i}^{2} - (\Sigma x_{i})^{2} / n$
$SD^{2}_{X}$ Sample variance of $x_{i}$ $ SXX / (n-1)$
$SD_{X}$ or $s$ Sample standard deviation $\sqrt{ SXX / (n-1) }$
$SXY$ or $ ss_{XY}$ Corrected sum of cross products $\Sigma (x_{i} - \overline{x})(y_{i} - \overline{y})$
    $ \Sigma x_{i} y_{i} - n \overline{x} \overline{y}$
$s_{XY}$ Sample covariance $ss_{XY}/ (n-1) $
$ r_{XY}$ Sample correlation $ss_{XY} / \sqrt{ (ss_{XX})(ss_{YY}) }$
RMS Root mean square error $\sqrt{ \frac{1}{n_{i}} \Sigma
(y_{i} - \hat{y}_{i})^{2}}$


2003-08-29