Variance in a sentence as a noun

Make sure your internet searching takes this sort of variance into account.

There is some variance as with any foam manufacturing process.

In this case it is an estimate of how much the variance of a trait would be reduced if everyone were genetically identical.

Consistency means that if any person spends enough time and effort they will eventually overcome both bias and variance and find the best solution.

The really "good" part of the story they are sharing is talking about hidden assumptions, population variance, reproducibility, and so forth.

Kahneman and Tversky concluded that "the notion that sampling variance decreases in proportion to sample size is apparently not part of man's repertoire of intuitions.

An effect size of the R2 family is a standardized estimate of the proportion of the variance in one variable that is reduced when another variable is held constant statistically.

With a moments thought you can see that the answer to the question of how much variance would be reduced if everyone was genetically identical depends crucially on how genetically different everyone was in the first place.

Variance definitions

noun

an event that departs from expectations

See also: discrepancy variant

noun

discord that splits a group

See also: division

noun

the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value

noun

a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion"

See also: discrepancy disagreement divergence

noun

the quality of being subject to variation

See also: variability variableness

noun

an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); "a zoning variance"

noun

an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported"

See also: variation