var SciMax Toolbox var_bernoulli

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var1

Maxima Function

Calling Sequence

var1 (list)
var1(matrix)

Description

This is the sample variance, defined as

n
====
1   \          _ 2
---   >    (x - x)
n-1  /       i
====
i = 1
Example:

(%i1) load (descriptive)$
(%i2) load (numericalio)$
(%i3) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$
(%i4) var1 (s1), numer;
(%o4)                    8.5110101010101
(%i5) s2 : read_matrix (file_search ("wind.data"))$
(%i6) var1 (s2);
(%o6) [17.39586540404041, 15.13912778787879, 15.63204924242424,
                            32.50152569696971, 24.66977392929294]

See also function .

var SciMax Toolbox var_bernoulli