As we can see, the variance is larger! Calculating variance using Python. Now that we’ve done the calculation by hand, we can see that completing it for a large set of values would be very tedious.

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Calculating variance using Python. Now that we’ve done the calculation by hand, we can see that completing it for a large set of values would be very tedious. Luckily, ...