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Variance
01
a difference or deviation from what is expected or typical
Example
The temperature variance this year was higher than usual.
There was a slight variance in the experiment ’s results.
02
an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)
03
a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
04
the quality of being subject to variation
05
a measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in statistics, representing the average squared deviation from the mean
Example
In statistics, variance is a measure of how spread out the values in a data set are around the mean.
The variance of a random variable is the expectation of the squared deviation of that variable from its mean.
06
discord that splits a group
07
an event that departs from expectations
word family
vary
Verb
variance
Noun
covariance
Noun
covariance
Noun
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