Multideviation

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A generalization of standard deviation to higher orders.

    "In Part I, I introduce the multideviation framework and then use it to prove an important theorem: the Bell distributions can be generated from the set of joint distributions over all observables by deeming specific degrees of freedom unobservable."

  2. 2
    A distance of more than two standard deviations from the mean.

Example

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"In Part I, I introduce the multideviation framework and then use it to prove an important theorem: the Bell distributions can be generated from the set of joint distributions over all observables by deeming specific degrees of freedom unobservable."

Etymology

From multi- + deviation.

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