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Population variance function

Source: R/declare_diagnosands.R
pop.var.Rd

Population variance function

Usage

pop.var(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector, matrix or data frame.

na.rm

logical. Should missing values be removed?

Value

numeric scalar of the population variance

Examples


x <- 1:4
var(x) # divides by (n-1)
#> [1] 1.666667
pop.var(x) # divides by n
#> [1] 1.25