Re: Variance of sample and whole dataset
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- Subject: [mg51210] Re: Variance of sample and whole dataset
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve_usenet at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 02:55:07 -0400 (EDT)
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You can define a variance function thus:
var[dataset_]:=(Apply[Plus,#^2]/Length[#]-(Apply[Plus,#]/Length[#])^2)&[dataset];
and use it as in this example:
dataset={a,b,c};
var[dataset]
giving
(-(1/9))*(a + b + c)^2 + (1/3)*(a^2 + b^2 + c^2)
Steve Luttrell
"Uwe Ziegenhagen" <newsgroup at ziegenhagen.info> wrote in message
news:ck340j$b1j$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> 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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