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Examples of such data objects include covariance matrices, graph Laplacians of networks and univariate probability distribution functions. We derive a central limit theorem for the Fr\u00e9chet variance under mild regularity conditions, using empirical process theory, and also provide a consistent estimator of the asymptotic variance. These results lead to a test for comparing $k$ populations of metric space-valued data objects in terms of Fr\u00e9chet means and variances. We examine the finite-sample performance of this novel inference procedure through simulation studies on several special cases that include probability distributions and graph Laplacians, leading to a test for comparing populations of networks. The proposed approach has good finite-sample performance in simulations for different kinds of random objects. 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