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Can the IBM SPSS Statistics Base produce standard deviations and variances using N in the denominator rather than N-1?

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I want to compute standard deviations and variances assuming I have data for an entire population, using N rather than N-1 in the denominator. I'm aware that you can use the MIXED procedure in the Advanced Models module to compute such a variance value, but I'd like to be able to show students how to do this in the Base. Can it be done?

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