variance
IPA: vˈɛriʌns
noun
- The act of varying or the state of being variable.
- A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation.
- The state of differing or being in conflict.
- An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations.
- (law) A discrepancy between two legal documents.
- (law) A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.
- (statistics) The second central moment in probability.
- (physics, chemistry, biology) The number of degrees of freedom in a system.
- (computing, programming) Covariance and contravariance generally.
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Examples of "variance" in Sentences
- There is a variance in species of animals.
- The more tests you do, the less the variance.
- It gives the estimation of the variance terms.
- The caption to the first picture says that the variance is 2.
- Specifically, the formula is missing the sum of the variances.
- Multiple regression and the analysis of variance and covariance.
- For an unbiased estimator, the MSE and the variance are the same.
- The description of the Greek economy is at total variance with the facts.
- There is some variance on the height of the stick in preference of the player.
- It may be prudent to consider the variance in preclusive effect of decisions from different fora.