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- Dictionarydeviation/ˌdiːvɪˈeɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the action of departing from an established course or accepted standard: "deviation from a norm"
- 2. the amount by which a single measurement differs from a fixed value such as the mean: "a significant deviation from the average value"
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2 days ago · The normal distribution, also called the Gaussian distribution, is a probability distribution commonly used to model phenomena such as physical characteristics (e.g. height, weight, etc.) and test scores.
6 days ago · The standard deviation of a probability distribution, just like the variance of a probability distribution, is a measurement of the deviation in that probability distribution. It allows one to quantify how much the outcomes of a probability experiment tend to differ from the expected value.
2 days ago · Deviation – the difference between the size of the part and the basic size. Upper deviation – the difference between the maximum size limit and the basic size. Lower deviation is the difference between the minimum limit of size and the basic size.
3 days ago · The normal distribution is a theoretical distribution of values for a population. Often referred to as a bell curve when plotted on a graph, data with a normal distribution tends to accumulate around a central value; the frequency of values above and below the center decline symmetrically.
1 day ago · In probability theory and statistics, a normal distribution or Gaussian distribution is a type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable. The general form of its probability density function is The parameter is the mean or expectation of the distribution (and also its median and mode ), while the parameter is the ...
4 days ago · A random variable that is log-normally distributed takes only positive real values. It is a convenient and useful model for measurements in the natural sciences, engineering, as well as medicine, economics and other fields.
3 days ago · While the sample statistic for variance using n-1 in the denominator is an unbiased statistic, the square root of the variance (standard deviation) is a biased statistic for the population standard deviation.
