deviation from standard
1deviation from standard procedures — departure from standard methods or practice …
2deviation — deviation, aberration, divergence, deflection denote departure or an instance of departure from a straight course or procedure or from a norm or standard. Deviation, the term of widest application, usually requires qualification or a context to… …
3Standard deviation — In probability and statistics, the standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of a collection of values. It can apply to a probability distribution, a random variable, a population or a data set. The standard deviation is usually denoted… …
4Standard error (statistics) — For a value that is sampled with an unbiased normally distributed error, the above depicts the proportion of samples that would fall between 0, 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations above and below the actual value. The standard error is the standard… …
5standard deviation — A standard deviation tells us how much specific examples vary from the average in a particular set. Thus, the larger the standard deviation, the more diverse/volatile are the examples. The more volatile the examples, the less predictable and… …
6deviation — A noticeable or marked departure from the appropriate norm, plan, standard, procedure, or variable being reviewed. Similar to variance. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Glossary * * * deviation de‧vi‧a‧tion [ˌdiːviˈeɪʆn] noun 1. [countable,… …
7Standard deviation — The square root of the variance. A measure of dispersion of a set of data from their mean. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * standard deviation standard deviation ➔ deviation * * * A statistical measure of the amount by which one… …
8standard score — noun : an individual test score expressed as the deviation from the mean score of the group in units of standard deviation * * * Statistics. the test score of a participant expressed as the deviation of the score from the mean score of the sample …
9standard deviation — (sd) a mathematical unit used to describe the spread or dispersion of a set of data. Each item in the data set has a deviation from the mean (the ordinary average) of the data. The standard deviation is computed by taking the squares of these… …
10standard deviation — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms standard deviation : singular standard deviation plural standard deviations maths a number that shows how much smaller or larger a number in a set of numbers is from the average of the set …
