σ² = Σ(xᵢ − μ)² / NVariables
- σ²
- population variance
- xᵢ
- population values
- μ
- population mean
- N
- population size
Reference details
- Subject
- Statistics
- Topic
- dispersion
- Plain text
sigma^2 = sum(x_i-mu)^2/N
Statistics · dispersion
Measures population spread around the population mean.
σ² = Σ(xᵢ − μ)² / Nsigma^2 = sum(x_i-mu)^2/N