population variance
population variance
[‚päp·yə′lā·shən ′ver·ē·əns] (statistics)
The arithmetic average of the numbers (v1-v̄)2,…, (vN -v̄)2, where vi are numbers obtained from a population with N members, one for each member, and v̄ is the population mean.
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