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VARP
This function returns variance based on the entire population, which uses only numeric values.
Syntax
VARP(number1,[number2],...)
Arguments
This function has these arguments:
Argument | Description |
|---|---|
Number1 | [Required] The first number argument corresponding to a population. |
Number2,... | [Optional] Additional numeric arguments (2 to 255) representing the population. You can also use a single array or a reference to an array instead of arguments separated by commas. |
Remarks
The variance returns how spread out a set of data is.
This function uses the following equation to calculate the variance, where n is the number of values.
where x is the value and n is the number of values.
This function assumes that its arguments are the entire population. If your data represents only a sample of the population, then compute the variance using the VAR function.
This function differs from VARPA, which accepts logical or text values as well as numeric values.
Examples
VARP(B3,C4,B2,D10,E5)
VARP(A1:A9) VARP(R1C2,100,R2C5,102)
VARP(98,85,76,87,92,89,90) gives the result 39.2653061224