def lsamplevar (inlist):
    n = len(inlist)
    mn = mean(inlist)
    deviations = []
    for item in inlist:
        deviations.append(item-mn)
    return ss(deviations)/float(n)
Returns the variance of the values in the passed list using
dataset/ETHPy150Open radlab/sparrow/src/main/python/third_party/stats.py/lsamplevar