If I know the mean, standard deviation, and size of sample A and sample B,...
Calvin Hess
Answered
2022-01-29
If I know the mean, standard deviation, and size of sample A and sample B, how do I compute the standard deviation of the union of samples A and B? What if samples A and B are of different sizes?
Answer & Explanation
utgyrnr0
Expert
2022-01-30Added 11 answers
Explanation:
Let us start with samples with unequal sizes.
Let the mean, standard deviation and size of sample A be and
and mean, standard deviation and size of sample B be and respectively.
Then mean of comibined sample is given by
and Standard Deviation of combined sample S is
Note that it is important to work out mean of combined sample first, as to is used to calculate Standard Deviation of combined sample.
If the sample sizes are equal then the above reduces to
and