How to Calculate Variance in OpenOffice. Variance is a statistical calculation that numerically describes the amount of variation in a data set. If values in a data set wildly fluctuate, variance ...

How do you find the variance? Calculating the variance for a data set can differ based on whether the set is the entire population or a sample of the population.

Hardeo Sahai, Satish Misra, Definitions of Sample Variance: Some Teaching Problems to be Overcome, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 41, No. 1 (1992), pp.

Two small-sample modifications of local polynomials are presented: local increase of bandwidth in sparse regions of the design, and local polynomial ridge regression. Both modifications combine a good ...