Hi
Following your train of thought, this is probably what you want :
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; #open(FH,"$ARGV[0]") or die; #my @temp=<FH>; #close FH; my @temp = <DATA>; 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 { my ($arrayref)= @_; my @a = map ( ($_ - $mean)**2, @$arrayref); return sum(\@a) / scalar @$arrayref; } __DATA__ 1 2 3 4 5

Check
map
discrete statistics

Best regards,
Allan Dystrup

In reply to Re: variance calculation by ady
in thread variance calculation by cdfd123

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