A generic function for computing the variance of an object.
variance(x, ...)# S3 method for numeric
variance(x, ...)
# S3 method for matrix
variance(x, ...)
# S3 method for numeric
covariance(x, ...)
An object.
Additional arguments used by methods.
The implementation of variance()
for numeric variables coerces the input to
a vector then uses stats::var()
to compute the variance. This means that,
unlike stats::var()
, if variance()
is passed a matrix or a 2-dimensional
array, it will still return the variance (stats::var()
returns the
covariance matrix in that case).
variance.distribution()
, covariance()