var

Variance

Syntax

• V = var(M)

Input argument

• M - a vector or matrix

Output argument

• V - Variance of M.

Description

V = var(M) returns the variance of the elements of M along the first array dimension whose size does not equal 1.

Example

M = [4 -7 3; 1 4 -2; 10 7 9];
V = var(M)

See also

cov, mean.

History

Author

Allan CORNET