Variance

Variance[list] gives the statistical variance of the elements in list.

Variance[list] gives the unbiased estimate of variance.

Variance[list] is equivalent to Total[(list-Mean[list])^2]/(Length[list]-1).

Variance handles both numerical and symbolic data.

Variance[, , ... , , , ... , ... ] gives Variance[, , ... ], Variance[, , ... ].

Variance works with SparseArray objects.

See Section 1.6.7, Section 3.2.14 and Section 3.8.1.

See also: StandardDeviation, Mean, Quantile.

Related packages: Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics`, Statistics`MultiDescriptiveStatistics`.

New in Version 5.0.

Further Examples