VARP

Calculates the variance based on an entire population.

VARP for BigQuery

Calculates the population variance of a data column.

Sample usage

=VARP(table_name!price)

Syntax

VARP(column)

• column – The data column of the population.

Tip: Returning population variance across multiple columns is not supported.

Sample usage

VARP(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

VARP(A2:A100)

Syntax

VARP(value1, [value2, …])

• value1 – The first value or range of the population.

• value2, ... – Additional values or ranges to include in the population.

Notes

• Although VARP is specified as taking a maximum of 30 arguments, Google Sheets supports an arbitrary number of arguments for this function.

• If the total number of values supplied as value arguments is not at least two, VARP will return the #DIV/0! error.

• VARP will ignore any of the value arguments that include text. To calculate the variance while interpreting text values as 0, use VARPA.

• VARP calculates the variance for an entire population. To calculate the variance across a sample, use VAR.

• VARP takes the sum of the squares of each value's deviation from the mean and divides by the number of such values. This differs from the calculation of variance across a sample in that the latter divides by the size of the data set minus one.

See also

VARPA: Calculates the variance based on an entire population, setting text to the value '0'.

VARA: Calculates the variance based on a sample, setting text to the value '0'.

VAR: Calculates the variance based on a sample.

STDEVPA: Calculates the standard deviation based on an entire population, setting text to the value '0'.

STDEVP: Calculates the standard deviation based on an entire population.

STDEVA: Calculates the standard deviation based on a sample, setting text to the value `0`.

STDEV: The STDEV function calculates the standard deviation based on a sample.

SKEW: Calculates the skewness of a data set, which describes the symmetry of that data set about the mean.

KURT: Calculates the kurtosis of a data set, which describes the shape and in particular the 'peakedness' of that data set.

DVARP: Returns the variance of an entire population selected from a database table-like array or range using an SQL-like query.

DVAR: Returns the variance of a population sample selected from a database table-like array or range using an SQL-like query.

DSTDEVP: Returns the standard deviation of an entire population selected from a database table-like array or range using an SQL-like query.

DSTDEV: Returns the standard deviation of a population sample selected from a database table-like array or range using an SQL-like query.

DEVSQ: Calculates the sum of squares of deviations based on a sample.

AVEDEV: Calculates the average of the magnitude of deviations of data from a data set's mean.

Examples