Probability and Statistics
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Variance is a measure in statistics of the dispersion of a set of values (represented as 
). It is defined as
where the expected value of X is E(X).
The formula for variance must not be confused with the formula
which is the formula for a point estimate of the true variance from a sample of size n. As such this estimator itself has a variance which, as the formula indicates, decreases as the sample size increases.
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