Manuals/calci/DVAR

DVAR(database, field, criteria)

• Where $database$ is the range of cells that makes up the list or database

• $field$ shows which column is used in the function and

• $criteria$ is the range of cells that contains the specified criteria.

DVAR() calculates the estimates of the variance of a population, based on sample by using data in a specified column that matches the specified criteria.

Description

DVAR(database, field, criteria)

• A $field$ argument can be expressed as "Salary" (a column name) or 3(position of the column).
• $criteria$ can be any range on the Calci with minimum of one column and at least one row indicating the condition.
• The $criteria$ columns should not overlap the list of data.

Examples

Name	Age	Salary	Age
	<40	>8000	>32
	>30
Name	Age	Salary
John	34	5500
Bill	35	6500
Clark	29	7000
Bob	45	9000
Susan	37	4000
Jill	45	8000

=DVAR(A4:C10,"Age",C1:C2)   : Calculates the estimated variance for 'Age' column in the range A4 to C10, for the cells with Salary>8000. Returns 41.952380952380956 as a result.
=DVAR(A4:C10,3,B1:B3)   : Calculates the estimated variance for 'salary' in the range A4 to C10, for the cells with 40>Age>30. Returns 2819444.4444444445 as a result.

See Also

• DVARP

References

• List of Aggregate Functions