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Variance

For a series of (x_i) elements, the variance is calculated as

var = (xixavg)2N

with x_avg the average value of all the x_i, and N the total number of elements in the series.

Compare with CoVariance, that relates two different series of elements.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance