Had this same thought as well. Definitely comes up when calculating variance this way in streaming data. https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/235151/1036 https://

Had this same thought as well. Definitely comes up when calculating variance this way in streaming data. https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/235151/1036 https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/235151/1036 I am not sure if `n*old_mean` is a good idea. Wellford's is typically something like inside the loop count += 1; delta = current - mean; mean += delta/count;