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variance

The variance aggregation function calculates the variance of Expression across the group, considering the group as a sample.

Use this function with the summarize, eventstats, and timestats operators.

Used formula:

variance formula
variance formula

Syntax

    variance( Expression )

Arguments

  • Expression: Expression used for aggregation calculation. Wildcards are not supported for field names.

Results

The variance value of Expression across the group.

Example

dataset=myDataset
| summarize variance(x)