python中var是什么_python中的numpy var（）和statisticsvariant（）有什么区别？

I was trying one Dataquest exercise and I figured out that the variance I am getting is different for the two packages..

e.g for [1,2,3,4]

from statistics import variance

import numpy as np

print(np.var([1,2,3,4]))

print(variance([1,2,3,4]))

//1.25

//1.6666666666666667

The expected answer of the exercise is calculated with np.var()

Edit

I guess it has to do that the later one is sample variance and not variance.. Anyone could explain the difference?

解决方案

Use this

print(np.var([1,2,3,4],ddof=1))

1.66666666667

Delta Degrees of Freedom: the divisor used in the calculation is N - ddof, where N represents the number of elements. By default, ddof is zero.

The mean is normally calculated as x.sum() / N, where N = len(x). If, however, ddof is specified, the divisor N - ddof is used instead.

In standard statistical practice, ddof=1 provides an unbiased estimator of the variance of a hypothetical infinite population. ddof=0 provides a maximum likelihood estimate of the variance for normally distributed variables.

Statistical libraries like numpy use the variance n for what they call var or variance and the standard deviation

For more information refer this documentation : numpy doc