A Simple Random Sample of 10 Students Is Selected from a Large

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Short Answer

A simple random sample of 10 students is selected from a large college.For the 10 students,the number of days each was absent during the last semester was to be 3,7,2,1,0,2,4,2,6,and 2.What is the point estimate for $\text { σ }$
,the standard deviation of the number of days absent for the college's students?

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