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Variance of sample and whole dataset

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• Subject: [mg51192] Variance of sample and whole dataset
• From: Uwe Ziegenhagen <newsgroup at ziegenhagen.info>
• Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 05:26:30 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello,

with Variance[list] and StandardDeviation[list] I get the 
variance/std.dev for samples.

Is there any builtin command for the variance of whole dataset (division 
by n, not by n-1)?

Uwe


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