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

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: kernel pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29326
• Assignee: David Li
• Reporter: Nicola Crane
• Created: 23/Aug/21 13:04
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:34
• Resolved: 31/Aug/21 16:51

Description

When calling the "variance", "stddev", "hash_variance", and "hash_stddev" kernels, there is no option to handle NA values and they are currently ignored - could we have an option added, so that if there are NA values, we get an NA back?

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-13618 [R] Use Arrow engine for summarize() by default
• is depended upon by: ARROW-13821 [R] Handle na.rm in sd, var bindings
• is duplicated by: ARROW-12615 [C++] Add options for handling NAs to stddev and variance
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11005