population variance and sample variance
sum((x-mean(x))^2)/(n)
[1] 0.4894708
((n-1)/n) * var(x)
[1] 0.4894708 hth, Kingsford
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
It seems that var() computes sample variance. It is straight forward to compute population variance from sample variance. However, I feel that it is still convenient to have a function that can compute population variance. Is there a population variance function available in R? $ Rscript var.R
set.seed(0) n = 4 x = rnorm(n) var(x)
[1] 0.6526278
sum((x-mean(x))^2)/(n-1)
[1] 0.6526278
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