var() Method - Teradata Python Package

Teradata® Python Package User Guide

Product
Teradata Python Package
Release Number
16.20
Published
February 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2020-02-29
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage

Use the var() function to return column-wise unbiased variance value of the DataFrame.

# Create teradataml dataframe.
>>> df1 = DataFrame("sales")
>>> print(df1)
                  Feb   Jan   Mar   Apr    datetime
accounts
Blue Inc     90.0    50    95   101  04/01/2017
Orange Inc  210.0  None  None   250  04/01/2017
Red Inc     200.0   150   140  None  04/01/2017
Yellow Inc   90.0  None  None  None  04/01/2017
Jones LLC   200.0   150   140   180  04/01/2017
Alpha Co    210.0   200   215   250  04/01/2017
# Prints unbiased variance of each column(with supported data types).
>>> df3 = df1.select(["accounts","Feb","Jan","Mar","Apr"])
>>> df3.var()
       var_Feb      var_Jan  var_Mar      var_Apr
0  3546.666667  3958.333333   2475.0  5036.916667
>>>