deviation
- noun
- /ˌdiːviˈeɪʃən/
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- Calculating the deviation helps identify outliers that may skew the overall results of the experiment.
- standard deviation
- mean deviation
- deviation scores
The the the little bump is couple of standard deviations perhaps, but it is in the same place in both experiments.
- The the the little bump is couple of standard deviations perhaps, but it is in the same place in both experiments.
- And so that ends up being where you'll have that margin of error, that standard deviation bar on the chart be a bit wider.
- I just said Yale's portfolio had a high return and I didn't correct for standard deviation of return.
- It's about half a standard deviation difference and it shows up pretty early in, in childhood.
- Now all of these are great ideas as to how to, you know, come up with a reasonable number for standard deviation.
- You know, by definition, it does not conform to a standard deviation.
- You put that into the model and you solve for standard deviation, which is one of the black Shoals inputs.
- We're talking hundreds and hundreds of standard deviations in gamma, coherent gamma, perfect coherent gamma.
Examples
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Variability of data within a phase refers to the deviation in scores about the trend line.
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Descriptive statistics in the form of means and standard deviations were calculated for all acoustic measures.
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That means they fall substantially below the standard deviation.
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For discussion purposes, the mean and standard deviation are reported for some variables as well.
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In the first step, the standard deviation of the analysis over all sample cups was calculated.
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So this is total sum of squared deviations around the mean.
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Table 1 summarizes the means and standard deviations for gender and type of school differences.
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Table 2 presents means and standard deviations for both the no-cues and four-cues tasks.
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The researcher noted a significant deviation from the expected results in the final analysis.
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In statistics, the deviation of a single data point from the mean indicates its relative position within the dataset.
Synonyms
A measure of how far a data value is from the average or middle value
Antonyms
Compounds
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A number that shows how much values in a set vary from the average
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A measure of how far a data value is from the average or middle value
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A number that shows the typical distance of numbers in a set from their middle value
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A number that shows how far numbers usually are from the middle value
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The average distance of each number from the group's average
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Half the distance between the top and bottom values of the middle half of a set of numbers
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A measure of how far actual values usually are from predicted values
How Large
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deviation comes from the Latin parts de- 'away' and via 'way'. In statistics, a deviation is the amount a number is 'away from the usual way' or the average, which is why the word measures that difference.