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NAME

6       Statistics::Basic::Variance - find the variance of a list
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SYNOPSIS

9       Invoke it this way:
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11           my $variance = variance(1,2,3);
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13       Or this way:
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15           my $v1  = vector(1,2,3);
16           my $var = var($v1);
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18       And then either query the values or print them like so:
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20           print "The variance of $v1: $variance\n";
21           my $vq = $var->query;
22           my $v0 = 0+$var;
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24       Create a 20 point "moving" variance like so:
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26           use Statistics::Basic qw(:all nofill);
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28           my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select col1 from data where something");
29           my $len = 20;
30           my $var = var()->set_size($len);
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32           $sth->execute or die $dbh->errstr;
33           $sth->bind_columns( my $val ) or die $dbh->errstr;
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35           while( $sth->fetch ) {
36               $var->insert( $val );
37               if( defined( my $v = $var->query ) ) {
38                   print "Variance: $v\n";
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41               # This would also work:
42               # print "Variance: $v\n" if $var->query_filled;
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METHODS

46       new()
47           The constructor takes a list of values, a single array ref, or a
48           single Statistics::Basic::Vector as arguments.  It returns a
49           Statistics::Basic::Variance object.
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51           Note: normally you'd use the mean() constructor, rather than
52           building these by hand using "new()".
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55           Returns the Statistics::Basic::Mean object used in the variance
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58       _OVB::import()
59           This module also inherits all the overloads and methods from
60           Statistics::Basic::_OneVectorBase.
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AUTHOR

63       Paul Miller "<jettero@cpan.org>"
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65       I am using this software in my own projects...  If you find bugs,
66       please please please let me know. :) Actually, let me know if you find
67       it handy at all.  Half the fun of releasing this stuff is knowing that
68       people use it.
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OVERLOADS

71       This object is overloaded.  It tries to return an appropriate string
72       for the calculation or the value of the computation in numeric context.
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74       In boolean context, this object is always true (even when empty).
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77       Copyright 2009 Paul Miller -- Licensed under the LGPL
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SEE ALSO

80       perl(1), Statistics::Basic, Statistics::Basic::_OneVectorBase,
81       Statistics::Basic::Vector
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