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[ US /ˈvɛɹiəns/ ]
[ UK /vˈe‍əɹi‍əns/ ]
NOUN
  1. a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
    a growing divergence of opinion
  2. an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)
    a zoning variance
  3. an activity that varies from a norm or standard
    any variation in his routine was immediately reported
  4. the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value
  5. the quality of being subject to variation
  6. an event that departs from expectations
  7. discord that splits a group

How To Use variance In A Sentence

  • Such conditions produce overdispersion, wherein the variance exceeds the mean.
  • Problems such as background noise determination, analysis of variance, and errors in data handling are highlighted.
  • So looking at whether something makes people happy is largely futile. In statisticians' terms, you are looking for variance in something that is invariant.
  • Extensive simulation results demonstrate the validity of the novel half-rate rotational invariance joint space-frequency coding scheme and the performance of the direct decoding algorithm.
  • The value of an option increases with the variance per period of the stock return multiplied by the number of periods to maturity. Principles of Corporate Finance
  • It is very frustrating for a sponsor to agree to a scope/schedule/cost variance in one month, only to have the project manager come back the next month looking for an additional variance.
  • The most common measure of variability is variance and the corresponding measure of correlation between two variables is covariance.
  • But it turned out worse than that: the 200 submissions were later judged to be totally at variance with the findings of the RAF's own Board of Inquiry into the accident.
  • Our first step was to take a player's performance and measure the variance. Times, Sunday Times
  • The peak in the center of this surface represented the large estimate of genetic variance in the E3 environment.
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