Excel Function : VAR.S
Category
Statistical
Description
Estimates variance based on a sample
Microsoft Excel Reference Page
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/VARS-function-913633de-136b-449d-813e-65a00b2b990b
Syntax and Description of the VAR.S Excel Function
from R
I need to use the syntax VAR.S in a function in R, but I can't find a way.
Is there any way to do it?
I have a reference table with 3 columns and many rows, like this one:
Year Country Value
2008 USA 100
2009 USA 110
2010 USA 125
2008 UK 130
2009 UK 140
2010 UK 150
I need to calculate the variance of the Value column, divided by the number of observations.
In Excel I would use the VAR.S function, but I don
About VAR.S Excel Function
The VAR.S function returns the variance of a sample based on the population variance. The variance is calculated by using the following equation: VAR.S(number1,number2,...) number1, number2, ... are 1 to 255 numbers for which you want to calculate the variance.
