Skip to content
xlsoffice. All Rights Reserved
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Lookup and Reference Examples

  • How to get last row in numeric data in Excel
  • How to get relative column numbers in a range in Excel
  • Extract data with helper column in Excel
  • Merge tables with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • To count total rows in a range in Excel

Data Analysis Examples

  • Excel Pie Chart
  • How to count table rows in Excel
  • Chart Axes in Excel
  • Conditional Formatting New Rule with Formulas in Excel
  • How To Perform and Interpret Regression Analysis in Excel

Data Validation Examples

  • How To Create Drop-down List in Excel
  • Excel Data validation must not contain
  • Prevent invalid data entering in specific cells
  • Excel Data validation specific characters only
  • Excel Data validation don’t exceed total

VARA function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

by

What is VARA function in Excel?

VARA function is one of Statistical functions in Microsoft Excel that estimates variance based on a sample.

Syntax of VARA function

VARA(value1, [value2], …)

The VARA function syntax has the following arguments:

  • Value1, value2, …    Value1 is required, subsequent values are optional. 1 to 255 value arguments corresponding to a sample of a population.

Explanation of VARA function

  • VARA assumes that its arguments are a sample of the population. If your data represents the entire population, you must compute the variance by using VARPA.
  • Arguments can be the following: numbers; names, arrays, or references that contain numbers; text representations of numbers; or logical values, such as TRUE and FALSE, in a reference.
  • Logical values and text representations of numbers that you type directly into the list of arguments are counted.
  • Arguments that contain TRUE evaluate as 1; arguments that contain text or FALSE evaluate as 0 (zero).
  • If an argument is an array or reference, only values in that array or reference are used. Empty cells and text values in the array or reference are ignored.
  • Arguments that are error values or text that cannot be translated into numbers cause errors.
  • If you do not want to include logical values and text representations of numbers in a reference as part of the calculation, use the VAR function.
  • VARA uses the following formula:Formulawhere x is the sample mean AVERAGE(value1,value2,…) and n is the sample size.

Example of VARA function

Steps to follow:

1. Open a new Excel worksheet.

2. Copy data in the following table below and paste it in cell A1

Note: For formulas to show results, select them, press F2 key on your keyboard and then press Enter.

You can adjust the column widths to see all the data, if need be.

Strength
1345
1301
1368
1322
1310
1370
1318
1350
1303
1299
Formula Description Result
=VARA(A2:A11) Estimates the variance for the breaking strength of the tools being tested. VARA assumes a population sample. 754.26667

Post navigation

Previous Post:

VAR.S function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Next Post:

VARPA function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others
  • T function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • How to convert text string to array in Excel
  • Convert Numbers to Text in Excel
  • Remove text by position in a cell in Excel
  • Join Text Strings Using Concatenate or ‘& Operator’ in Excel
  • TIMEVALUE function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • WEEKDAY function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • How to calculate most recent day of week in Excel
  • Convert decimal minutes to Excel time
  • Create date range from two dates in Excel
  • ODDLPRICE function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • ODDLYIELD function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • COUPNCD function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • ISPMT function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • ODDFYIELD function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
© 2022 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles