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# Variance

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The average of the squared differences from the Mean. 
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It shows numerically how far the data points are from the mean. Neither the mean nor the median can describe this. \
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**Variance,** $$\sigma^{2}=\frac{1}{n}\sum\_{i=1}^n(x\_{i}-\mu)^2$$