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Old 02-15-2007, 06:44 AM
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Default Simple variance question (Microsoft Excel)
When using Excel to measure variance, what's the effective difference between the VAR function, which estimates variance based on a sample, and the VARP function, which calculates variance based on the entire population? Why would someone prefer to use one rather than the other?

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