Here want to calculate the variance based on a sample 
      
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;


open(FH,"$ARGV[0]") or die;
my @temp=<FH>;
close FH;
my $mean = Mean (\@temp);
my $variance = variance(\@temp);
print "$variance\n";

sub sum
{
        my ($arrayref) = @_;
        my $result;
        foreach(@$arrayref) { $result+= $_; }
        return $result;
}

sub Mean {
    my ($arrayref) = @_;
    my $result;
    foreach (@$arrayref) { $result += $_ }
    return $result / @$arrayref;
}


sub variance
{

        return (sum map { ($_ - $mean)**2 } @_) / $#_;
}

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The error shows :

Can't use string ("2.47705346386633e+16") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at variance_try1.pl line 16.
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In reply to variance calculation by cdfd123

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