Brother Ensemble PDP-300CJ Owner's Manual page 398

Function Description
VAR Simple variance of a sample population. You
(value1,
can use as many arguments as you want,
value2,...)
including values, addresses, ranges, named
cells, and field names for arguments.
The formula used by the VAR function:
VARP Populationvariance of the values in a list.
(value1,
You can use as many arguments as you want,
value2,...)
including values, addresses, ranges, named
cells, and field names for arguments.
Example
=VAR(254,255,253,248,257,255,256) returns
8.666667.
n x – ( x)
2 2
n (n–1)
=VARP(254,255,253,248,257,255,256) returns
7.42857.
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