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What is the practical application of variance? (Squared Standard Deviation)
I'm teaching myself probability theory, and I'm not sure I understand any use for variance, as opposed to standard deviation. In the practice situations I'm looking at, the variance is larger than the range, so it doesn't seem intuitively useful.
