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        /// <summary>
        /// Estimates the unbiased population variance from the provided samples.
        /// On a dataset of size N will use an N-1 normalizer (Bessel's correction).
        /// Returns NaN if data has less than two entries or if any entry is NaN.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="samples">A subset of samples, sampled from the full population.</param>
        public static double Variance(this IEnumerable <double> samples)
        {
            var array = samples as double[];

            return(array != null
                ? ArrayStatistics.Variance(array)
                : StreamingStatistics.Variance(samples));
        }