Manuals/calci/DVARP

DVARP(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.

DVARP() calculates the variance of a population, based on entire population by using data in a specified column that matches the specified condition.

Description

DVARP(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

	A	B	C	D
1	Name	Age	Salary	Age
2		<40	>8000	>32
3		>30
4	Name	Age	Salary
5	John	34	5500
6	Bill	35	6500
7	Clark	29	7000
8	Bob	45	9000
9	Susan	37	4000
10	Jill	45	8000

=DVARP(A4:C10,"Age",C1:C3)   :  Calculates the true variance for Age column in the range A4 to C10, for the cells with Salary>8000. 
Returns 35.95918367346939 as a result.
=DVARP(A4:C10,3,B1:B3)   :  Calculates the true variance for Salary column in the range A4 to C10, for the cells with 40>Age>30. 
Returns 2506172.839506173 as a result.

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See Also

• DVAR

References

• List of Aggregate Functions

• List of Main Z Functions

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