[ARROW-12615] [C++] Add options for handling NAs to stddev and variance

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/28368
• Assignee: David Li
• Reporter: Nicola Crane
• Created: 30/Apr/21 16:28
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:27
• Resolved: 26/Aug/21 15:34

Description

Currently the compute kernels `stddev `and `variance` automatically ignore NAs, but it would be useful if there was an option to toggle this behaviour

Issue Links

• duplicates: ARROW-13691 [C++] Add option to handle NAs to VarianceOptions