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variance
(redirected from variance ratio distribution)

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variance
1. a difference or discrepancy between two steps in a legal proceeding, esp between a statement in a pleading and the evidence given to support it
2. (in the US and Canada) a licence or authority issued by the board of variance to contravene the usual rule, esp to build contrary to the provision of a zoning code
3. Chem the number of degrees of freedom of a system, used in the phase rule

variance [′ver·ē·əns]
(statistics)
The square of the standard deviation.


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