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  2. Squared deviations from the mean - Wikipedia

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    Squared deviations from the mean (SDM) result from squaring deviations. In probability theory and statistics, the definition of variance is either the expected value of the SDM (when considering a theoretical distribution) or its average value (for actual experimental data). Computations for analysis of variance involve the partitioning of a ...

  3. Variance - Wikipedia

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    The use of the term n − 1 is called Bessel's correction, and it is also used in sample covariance and the sample standard deviation (the square root of variance). The square root is a concave function and thus introduces negative bias (by Jensen's inequality), which depends on the distribution, and thus the corrected sample standard deviation ...

  4. Algorithms for calculating variance - Wikipedia

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    Algorithms for calculating variance play a major role in computational statistics.A key difficulty in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values.

  5. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    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 [2] [3] = ().

  6. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    The chi-squared distribution, which is the sum of the squares of n independent Gaussian random variables. It is a special case of the Gamma distribution, and it is used in goodness-of-fit tests in statistics. The inverse-chi-squared distribution; The noncentral chi-squared distribution; The scaled inverse chi-squared distribution; The Dagum ...

  7. Complex random variable - Wikipedia

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    Another example of a complex random variable is the uniform distribution over the filled unit circle, i.e. the set {| |}. This random variable is an example of a complex random variable for which the probability density function is defined. The density function is shown as the yellow disk and dark blue base in the following figure.

  8. Mean square - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and its applications, the mean square is normally defined as the arithmetic mean of the squares of a set of numbers or of a random variable. [ 1 ] It may also be defined as the arithmetic mean of the squares of the deviations between a set of numbers and a reference value (e.g., may be a mean or an assumed mean of the data), [ 2 ...

  9. Root mean square deviation - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... For an unbiased estimator, the RMSD is the square root of the variance, ... For example, when measuring the ...