Word Finder - variance

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The act of varying or the state of being variable.

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A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation.

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The state of differing or being in conflict.

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An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations.

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A discrepancy between two legal documents.

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A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.

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The second central moment in probability.

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The number of degrees of freedom in a system.

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Covariance and contravariance generally.

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Depending on the variance of the type constructor, the subtyping relation of the simple types may be either preserved, reversed, or ignored for the respective complex types.

There are other sayings in the book that appear to be at variance with its fundamental thought.

Model based largely to adjust variance a doctor specialist.

Our idea relies on the use of adaptive methods that aim at reducing the asymptotic variance of the estimates.

Paul's attitude towards nepotism was at variance with his character as a reformer.

The fourth option allows the user to specify a variance covariance matrix for the shocks.

However, there is still a sizable, and at least partly explicable, variance in impacts across household characteristics.

Clarendon had high moral views that were at variance with the moral laxity of Charles II court.

He proposed simple and small convolution masks in combination with the computation of the local variance using a moving window in the image.

The surfaces ' points have been corrupted with a Gaussian noise of 2 mm variance.

You will be involved with a variety of tasks including balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets and variance analysis.

The variance explained by Z alone is not shown by node shading.

To calculate variance, the mean of a group of scores is subtracted from each score to give a group of " deviations " .

The use of a variance component allows the effects of noise in bias subtraction to be properly monitored.

The ` exp var BG ` is the background light curve expected variance.

The ` Exp var BG ` is the background light curve expected variance.

Errors in estimating this white noise variance are translated to errors in scale of the AR spectral values.

This is equivalent to one minus the explained variance of the model.

Numbers of microscopic fields assessed per section and of sections per animal has been selected to minimize variance between animals.

This returns the potential adjusted variance for, where N is an element contained in the base.

For module (i) the t-Test two sample assuming unequal variance was employed.

The overall position for the first six months of the current financial year showed a favorable variance of £ 563,000.

Historically, these confounding effects have been controlled using linear models assuming a constant additive error variance.

That means there must always be a real possibility of an outcome at variance with parental wishes.

In the course of his studies he discovered what he thought important variance between the teaching of the Church of England and that of the Bible, and he did not conceal his convictions.

In dealing with pagans and heretics Gratian, who during his later years was greatly influenced by Ambrose, bishop of Milan, exhibited severity and injustice at variance with his usual character.

The medicine is so simple in application and so easily available that it is served out almost automatically and indifferently, to every law-breaker; the pickpocket and the burglar are locked up next door to the clergyman at variance with his bishop; the weak-kneed and self-indulgent drunkard rubs shoulders with the political zealot who has endangered the peace of nations.

Ahenobarbus was elected pontifex maximus in 103, consul in 96 and censor in 92 with Lucius Licinius Crassus the orator, with whom he was frequently at variance.

The fact that, in practice, the judgments even of connoisseurs are perpetually at variance, and that the so-called criteria of one place or period are more or less opposed to those of all others, is explained away by the hypothesis that individuals are differently gifted in respect of the capacity to appreciate.

An apparent trend in some measurement may signify nothing more than a change in variance, often coupled with a ceiling or floor effect.

To calculate variance, the mean of a group of scores is subtracted from each score to give a group of " deviations ".

We assume that the variance of the resource distribution is finite.

In Figaro the variance array must not contain bad values.

The noise levels are recorded in the variance component of the output NDF.

A finite sample correction to the GMM variance estimate has been derived.

There's just enough variance to make it worth stopping again.

Setbacks and local codes may restrict the size of the addition greatly, an architect will know how to navigate these restrictions and how to petition for a variance should one be needed.

Measure the length and width of the window at three or four points and determine the variance top to bottom and side to side.

With wine, the variance is so little; but wineries, like the Brown-Forman have had "low carb" wines on the market for years.

There is great variance in the symptoms, available treatments, and long-term consequences of these conditions.

Because there is a wide variance in the severity of symptoms, signs of Bell's palsy may not be immediately noticed by parents.

Because there is wide variance in the degree of lactose intolerance, treatment should be tailored for the individual.

The RDW is a measure of the variance in red blood cell size.

There have been many theories of what causes the wide variance of eye color throughout the world.

Any name variance other than the seller's name should be a red flag.

Waynflete was assigned as the principal executor of his "will" for that purpose, and if there was any variance between the executors, he was to determine it.

He was required to maintain the Protestant reformed religion and to suppress " all religion at variance with the gospel."

Discords must not be taken unprepared, because a singer can only find his note by a mental judgment, and in attacking a discord he has to find a note of which the harmonic meaning is at variance with that of other notes sung at the same time.

It is noteworthy that in this family only among the Polychaeta, the nephridia are not restricted to a single pair in each segment; so that the older view that the gonad ducts are metamorphosed nephridia is not at variance with the anatomical facts which have been just stated.

The Order was at variance within itself; some of the houses of the brethren refused to obey the marshal, and the grand master quarrelled with the German master.

We do not know how far these recensions were uniform in the beginning; but a variance must have occurred shortly after, for the manuscripts in which the codes are preserved differ greatly from each other.