Question

Please design a simulation to show that the denominator of the sample variance should be n-1

Answer 1

The reason n-1 is used is because that is the number of degrees of freedom in the sample. The sum of each value in a sample minus the mean must equal 0, so if you know what all the values except one are, you can calculate the value of the final one.

We know that,To put it simply (n−1) is a smaller number than (n). When you divide by a smaller number you get a larger number. Therefore when you divide by (n−1) the sample variance will work out to be a larger number.