popvar: population variance

In rafalib: Convenience Functions for Routine Data Exploration

population variance

Description

Returns the population variance. Note that var returns the unbiased sample estimate of the population variance. It simply multiplies the result of var by (n-1) / n with n the population size.

Usage

popvar(x, ...)

Arguments

x	a numeric vector, matrix or data frame.
...	further arguments passed along to var

Examples

x <- c(0,1) ##variance should be 0.5^2=0.25
var(x) 
popvar(x)

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