The endocrine component of the pancreas consists of islet cells (islets of Langerhans) that create and release important hormones directly into the bloodstream. Two of the main pancreatic hormones are insulin, which acts to lower blood sugar, and glucagon, which acts to raise blood sugar.
Variability is a measure of the spread of a data set. Learn more about the different measures of variability including the range, variance, and standard deviation, and how they are used in the field of Psychology.
The variance is a measure of the variability of dispersion of the data. It is given by calculating and squaring the differences between the values and the mean, and calculating the average (mean) of those values. - How far, on average, each observation is from the mean.