Calculations based on population variance

Population variance

Population variance (σ2) tells us how data points in a specific population are spread out. It is the average of the distances from each data point in the population to the mean, squared.

σ2 is usually represented as σ2 and can be calculated using the following formula:

\[\sigma ^{2}= \sum \left ( X_{i}-\mu \right )^{2}/ N \]

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