[Rd] variance of a scalar (PR#546)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> Um. What professional statistics package uses n, then?  Are you
> suggesting that there is serious room for doubt?

SAS does, actually. Option VARDEF can be N or DF in PROC MEANS (and/or
PROC UNIVARIATE). [And pardon the shouting, SAS just looks that way..]

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