both population on variance and sample variance are always greater or equal to zero is it true
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It is calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean. Secondly, since we are squaring the differences from the mean, these values will always be positive. Even if the original differences from the mean were negative, squaring them makes them Show more…
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