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variance.distribution

Variance of a probability distribution

Description

Usage

## S3 method for class 'distribution'
variance(x, ...)

Arguments

`x`	The distribution(s).
`...`	Additional arguments used by methods.

Details

Returns the empirical variance of the probability distribution. If the method does not exist, the variance of a random sample will be returned.

distributional

Vectorised Probability Distributions

v0.2.2

GPL-3

Authors

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6729-7695>), Earo Wang [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6448-5260>), Matthew Kay [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9446-0419>), Alex Hayes [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4985-5160>)

Initial release