[R] How to find more about Covariance (in R)
Alaios
alaios at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 19 15:29:54 CET 2011
Hello everyone,
I am trying to understand how covariance work. So I created a vector called sr<-c(2,5,7,5,2)
so according to wikipedia Cov(X,X)=E[XX]-E[x]*E[x] which in R is
mean(sr*sr)-mean(sr)*mean(sr)
[1] 3.76
but also
cov(sr,sr)
[1] 4.7
why is this difference between these two approaches? Where I am wrong?
I would like to thank you in advance for your help
Best Regards
Alex
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