fix: correct undefined variable typo in AWK scripts

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• fixes a bug in tools/awk/variance.awk and tools/awk/stdev.awk where an undefined variable mu was used instead of the correctly initialized variable mean

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Both scripts implement Welford's method for computing variance/standard deviation. The variable mean is properly initialized and updated during iteration, but line 44 incorrectly referenced mu, which is never defined. AWK treats undefined variables as 0, causing incorrect calculations.

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PR Commit Message

fix: correct undefined variable typo in AWK scripts

PR-URL: https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib/pull/9804

Reviewed-by: Philipp Burckhardt <pburckhardt@outlook.com>

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