Excel COVARIANCE.S Function

What is COVARIANCE.S function in Excel?


The COVARIANCE.S function is one of the Statistical functions of Excel.

It returns sample covariance, the average of the products of deviations for
each data point pair in two data sets.

We can find this function in Statistical category of insert function Tab.

How to use COVARIANCE.S function in excel

  1. Click on an empty cell (like F5).
 an empty cell in excel

2. Click on the fx icon (or press shift+F3).

fx icon in excel

3. In the insert function tab you will see all functions.

function list in excel

4. Select STATISTICAL category.

5. Select COVARIANCE.S function.

6. Then select ok.

7. In the function arguments Tab you will see COVARIANCE.S function.

8. Array1 is the first cell range of integers and must be numbers, arrays, or
references that contain numbers.

9. Array2 is the second cell range of integers and must be numbers, arrays, of
references that contain numbers.

10. You will see the results in the formula result section.

Examples of COVARIANCE.S function in Excel

COVARIANCE.S related functions 

  • Use COVARIANCE.P function to return population covariance, the average of the products of deviations for each data point pair in two data sets.

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