Astron. Astrophys. 323, 399-414 (1997)

Appendix A: calculating the standard deviation of sample standard deviations

For the sample let

The sample standard deviation (s) is defined by

The standard deviation of sample standard deviations is defined by (Burington & May 1970)

with the variance of the population given by the unbiased estimate , and n the total number of points.

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