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Revision as of 14:39, 12 July 2014
The variance of a trait measured in a population is the squared deviation from the mean.
If the mean is μ.
The expected variance is σ2 = (x-μ)2 where x is an individual data-point.
This can be estimated from a set of measurements as the average squared deviation by summing the individuals components and dividing by the total number of observations, n, as σ2 = (1/n)∑(xi-μ)2, where xi is each individual data-point as i goes from 1 to n.
Of the underlying factors that contribute to a traits variance are independent, then the total trait variance is a sum of the individual variance components. Example, ...
