variance

expectation of the squared deviation of a random variable from its mean
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variance

Summary

variance is a descriptive statistic[1]. variance draws 2,046 Wikipedia views per month (descriptive_statistic category, ranking #2 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • variance's video is recorded as Erwartungswert, Varianz und Standardabweichung - diskrete Zufallsgröße.webm[3].
  • variance's image is recorded as Comparison standard deviations.svg[4].
  • variance's instance of is recorded as descriptive statistic[5].
  • variance's instance of is recorded as moment of order r[6].
  • variance's GND ID is recorded as 4078739-4[7].
  • variance's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00561029[8].
  • variance's Commons category is recorded as Variance[9].
  • variance's opposite of is recorded as precision[10].
  • variance's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 22052[11].
  • variance's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07ycq[12].
  • variance's PSH ID is recorded as 7728[13].
  • variance's described by source is recorded as ISO 3534-1:2006(en) Statistics — Vocabulary and symbols — Part 1: General statistical terms and terms used in probability[14].
  • variance's partially coincident with is recorded as variance[15].
  • variance's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/variance[16].
  • variance's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/variance[17].
  • variance's main Wikidata property is recorded as P10743[18].
  • variance's different from is recorded as sample variance[19].
  • variance's defining formula is recorded as V(X) = E\left(\left(X - E(X)\right)^2\right)[20].
  • variance's MathWorld ID is recorded as Variance[21].
  • variance's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as variance[22].
  • variance's IUPAC Gold Book ID is recorded as V06602[23].
  • variance's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].
  • variance's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[25].
  • variance's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/6200[26].
  • variance's in defining formula is recorded as V(\cdot)[27].

Why It Matters

variance draws 2,046 Wikipedia views per month (descriptive_statistic category, ranking #2 of 5).[2] variance has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] variance is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

variance is credited with the discovery of Ronald Fisher[30], a mathematician[31], 1890–1962[32], of United Kingdom[33], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society[34], specialised in statistics[35].

FAQs

What did variance discover?

variance is credited as discoverer of Ronald Fisher[30].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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