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Differences with NumPy
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For :class:`Series` and :class:`DataFrame` objects, :meth:`~DataFrame.var` normalizes by
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-``N-1`` to produce unbiased estimates of the sample variance, while NumPy's
+``N-1`` to produce `unbiased estimates of the population variance <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_of_an_estimator>`__, while NumPy's
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:meth:`numpy.var` normalizes by N, which measures the variance of the sample. Note that
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:meth:`~DataFrame.cov` normalizes by ``N-1`` in both pandas and NumPy.
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