Variance
Variance (from Latin variantia "difference") stands for:
- Variance (stochastics) , measure of the spread of a random variable
- Empirical variance , degree of dispersion of a sample in descriptive statistics
- Population variance, population variance
- Sample variance (estimator) , estimator for the variance of an unknown distribution
- Conditional variance , in stochastics a measure of the dispersion of a random variable based on the conditional expected value
- Total variance , scatter of a multivariate data set
- Allan variance , a measure of the stability of clocks and oscillators
- Annualized variance , adjusted variance in financial market theory
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Wiktionary: Variance - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations