When estimating the process standard deviation, , it is ...

Note that does not occur in the sum of squares part of the formula, as it would in a normal standard deviation formula. This is because the sum of the residuals is 0 and so = 0. Bias. Ideally, the actual values of and would be used in calculating the residuals, in which case the divisor used would be n. ................
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