I’m unable to submit the answer on Measures of Variability, task 9, although the code & the histogram seem to be correct.
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There must be something. You are missing in the code, maybe applying ‘Bessel corrections’ for calculating the standard deviation of a sample, etc.
Below is my code, which submitted successfully without any error.
from math import sqrt
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def standard_deviation(array):
reference_point = sum(array) / len(array)
distances = []
for value in array:
squared_distance = (value - reference_point)**2
distances.append(squared_distance)
variance = sum(distances) / len(distances)
return sqrt(variance)
def bessel_corr(array):
mean = sum(array)/len(array)
var = [abs(value-mean) ** 2 for value in array]
variance = sum(var)/(len(var)-1)
return sqrt(variance)
sample_sd = []
for i in range(5000):
sample = houses['SalePrice'].sample(10, random_state=i)
sample_sd.append(bessel_corr(sample))
plt.hist(sample_sd)
plt.axvline(standard_deviation(houses['SalePrice']))
Please, take a look at your code once again.
Thank You 