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variance | Business English

variance
noun
uk /ˈveəriəns/us
[ C or U ]
a difference between two or more or things:
We found a wide variance in the size, shape, and design of digital projectors.
The government fears that too much variance in the treatment of Scottish and English students could cause political strain.
[ C ] ACCOUNTING
the difference between the costs, sales, etc. expected during a particular period, and the final costs, etc:
Weekly sales variances are more volatile and ultimately less meaningful.
[ C ] LAW, PROPERTY US
a change in a law, especially one involving the use of property, that is allowed by a local government in particular situations:
apply for/request/seek a varianceThe power company has applied for a variance to the county rule on burying lines.
grant/deny a varianceThey filed a lawsuit against trustees after they were denied a variance to build a home on 17.82 acres.
He says he requested a zoning variance but that the county refused to process it.

Examples of variance

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The variances thus scaled linearly with the square of the mean.
Note that samples may, under this formulation, have different variances as well as different means.
The correlations among the endogenous variables actually reflect correlations among the residual variances of these variables.
We can think of these variances in precisely the same way as we do when thinking about any observed variable.
To express these means and variances in statistical terms, we treat the within-person model parameters as random variables and write equations for the parameters themselves.
Repeated measures analysis of variances with pre- and postintervention assessments of respective variables as the dependent variables were conducted.
The specification of the multivariate conditional mean should be tested for its empirical adequacy; otherwise, the conditional variances and covariances may be biased.
Performing the estimation for each period, we obtained estimates for the parameters and variances.
The truncation of the normal distribution leads to non-constant marginal means and variances for distributions estimated near the bounds.
T-tests were carried out to assess if there were significant differences within a group of means, assuming equal variances.
Log transformations were employed to stabilize variances and normalize the data where necessary.
The data distribution test proved to be nor mal with homogeneous treatment variances.
Because of different variances, these items were standardized before summing.
However, it is essential for our purposes to estimate such variances because they critically affect system behavior, queuing delays, and variances in downstream links.
The black columns show the estimated genetic variances for the second chromosome, and the open columns the estimated genetic variances for the third chromosome.
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Collocations withvariance

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additional variance
Additionalvariance and covariance values are usually introduced by orbit errors and atmospheric effects.
additive variance
An increase in the additive variance after bottlenecks will occur only if its ancestral value is minimal or very small.
amount of variance
Measures limitations may explain the relatively small amountofvariance accounted for in analyses predicting psychological and behavioral outcomes from risk scores.
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