Microsoft® Excel® 2010 Formulas & Functions Inside Out
by Helmut Reinke Egbert Jeschke Sara Unverhau, Eckehard Pfeifer, Bodo Fienitz, and Jens Bock
COVARIANCE.P()
Syntax. COVARIANCE.P(array1,array2)
Definition. This function returns the covariance of a population, which is the average of the products of deviations for each data-point pair.
Use the covariance to determine the relationship between two data sets. For example, you can determine whether a higher income is based on education.
Arguments
array1 (required). The first cell range of integers
array2 (required). The second cell range of integers
Note
The arguments must be numbers, names, arrays, or references that contain numbers. If an array or a reference argument contains text, logical values, or empty cells, those values are ignored. However, cells with the value 0 are included.
If array1 and array2 have a different number of data points, ...
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