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