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VARA

This function returns the variance based on a sample of a population, which includes numeric, logical, or text values.

Syntax

VARA(value1, [value2], ...)

Arguments

This function has these arguments:

Argument	Description
value1, value2, ...	Value1 is required, subsequent values are optional. 1 to 255 value arguments corresponding to a sample of a population.

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 a sample of the population. If your data represents the entire population, then compute the variance using the VARPA function.

This function differs from VAR because it accepts text and logical values as well as numeric values.

Examples

VARA(B3,C4,B2,D10,E5)

VARA(A1:A9)

VARA(R1C2,100,R2C5,102)

VARA(R1C1:R9C1)

VARA(R1C1:R1C9)

VARA(98,85,76,87,92,89,90) gives the result 45.8095238095