Estimate Standard Deviation of a Numeric Vector

Calculates the standard deviation (sigma) from the sample variance of a numeric vector.

Usage

EstimateVariance(x)

Arguments

x

Numeric vector.

Value

Numeric. The estimated standard deviation of x.

Details

This function computes the sample variance using var(x) and returns its square root.

Examples

EstimateVariance(c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
#> [1] 1.581139