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# kstatvar

scipy.stats.kstatvar(data, n=2, *, axis=None, nan_policy='propagate', keepdims=False)

  Return an unbiased estimator of the variance of the k-statistic.

  See `kstat` and [1] for more details about the k-statistic.

  Parameters:
    dataarray_like

      Input array.

    nint, {1, 2}, optional

      Default is equal to 2.

    axisint or None, default: None

      If an int, the axis of the input along which to compute the statistic. The statistic of each axis-slice (e.g. row) of the input will appear in a corresponding element of the output. If `None`, the input will be raveled before computing the statistic.

    nan_policy{‘propagate’, ‘omit’, ‘raise’}

      Defines how to handle input NaNs.

      - `propagate`: if a NaN is present in the axis slice (e.g. row) along which the statistic is computed, the corresponding entry of the output will be NaN.

      - `omit`: NaNs will be omitted when performing the calculation. If insufficient data remains in the axis slice along which the statistic is computed, the corresponding entry of the output will be NaN.

      - `raise`: if a NaN is present, a `ValueError` will be raised.

    keepdimsbool, default: False

      If this is set to True, the axes which are reduced are left in the result as dimensions with size one. With this option, the result will broadcast correctly against the input array.

  Returns:
    kstatvarfloat

      The n th k-statistic variance.

  See also

  `kstat`

    Returns the n-th k-statistic.

  `moment`

    Returns the n-th central moment about the mean for a sample.

  Notes

  Unbiased estimators of the variances of the first two k-statistics are given by

  \[\begin{split}\mathrm{var}(k_1) &= \frac{k_2}{n}, \\ \mathrm{var}(k_2) &= \frac{2k_2^2n + (n-1)k_4}{n(n - 1)}.\end{split}\]

  Beginning in SciPy 1.9, `np.matrix` inputs (not recommended for new code) are converted to `np.ndarray` before the calculation is performed. In this case, the output will be a scalar or `np.ndarray` of appropriate shape rather than a 2D `np.matrix`. Similarly, while masked elements of masked arrays are ignored, the output will be a scalar or `np.ndarray` rather than a masked array with `mask=False`.

  References

  [1]

  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/k-Statistic.html