Treat this data as population data. Which of the following R code computes the variance of the height of the birds?

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Scientists have discovered a new bird species; however, they only found 15 birds of such species. They measured the height (in cm) of these 10 birds:12.94,  5.80, 15.47, 14.14, 7.48, 9.21,  9.79,  8.86, 17.75, 10.39. I entered the data into R as shown below:


bird <- c(12.94,  5.80, 15.47, 14.14, 7.48, 9.21,  9.79,  8.86, 17.75, 10.39)

Treat this data as population data. Which of the following R code computes the variance of the height of the birds?

 

A.
var(bird)
B.
sum((bird - mean(bird))^2)/length(bird)
C.
mean((bird - mean(bird))^2)
D.
sum((bird - mean(bird))^2)/9
E.

B and C

F.

A and D

G.

B and D

H.

A and C

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