Variance

A random variable is definitely a constant if the variance is zero.

You can't describe the result of a non-parametric test with a statistical parameter such as variance.

I need to calculate the mean and the variance.

In other words, the definition in rural communities of what it means to be poor is at variance with definitions used by the government.

The Nazis burned the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, which conducted some of the earliest formal research into gender variance.

Certain other factors were considered to explain the variance from expected figures. All seven aviators smoked. Each considered himself to be in good physical condition, though none found the time to exercise regularly. No aviator was obese.

This remains an important tool and relies on simple subtraction to evaluate the difference ( variance ) between a planned result and an actual measurement.

Whenever a patient is recorded as having a variance (V), it is important to return soon afterwards to see if the care intervention has helped.

The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.

But here, again, is the old variance between nature and fortune: each seems to delight in marring the work of the other.