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18 Dec
2008
18 Dec
'08
5:43 p.m.
I find the new doc string for np.var a bit misleading: "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." This seems to refer to the divisor of the mean not of the variance. I need to sign up for doc editing rights. Josef