diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 2c3a5b1..909543d 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "OnlineStatsBase"
 uuid = "925886fa-5bf2-5e8e-b522-a9147a512338"
-version = "1.4.0"
+version = "1.4.1"
 
 [deps]
 AbstractTrees = "1520ce14-60c1-5f80-bbc7-55ef81b5835c"
diff --git a/src/stats.jl b/src/stats.jl
index 03fc1a6..2462e3d 100644
--- a/src/stats.jl
+++ b/src/stats.jl
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ function value(o::Variance)
     if nobs(o) > 1 
         o.σ2 * bessel(o) 
     else
-        isfinite(o.μ) ? 1.0 : NaN
+        isfinite(mean(o)) ? 1.0 : NaN
     end
 end
 Statistics.var(o::Variance) = value(o)