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How to pronounce “variance”
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Pronunciation guide for variance
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of variance with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
And in the behavioral sciences, explaining 5% of the variance
- Definition summary
- The act of varying or the state of being variable.
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How to pronounce variance
How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

And in the behavioral sciences, explaining 5% of the variance
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A Deep Dive Into “variance”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The act of varying or the state of being variable.
- A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation.
- The state of differing or being in conflict.
- An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations.
- (law) A discrepancy between two legal documents.
- (law) A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.
- (statistics) The second central moment in probability.
- (physics, chemistry, biology) The number of degrees of freedom in a system.
- (computing, programming) Covariance and contravariance generally.
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