variance

Financial Terms Canada -> variance

• an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported"
• the quality of being subject to variation
• a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion"
• the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value

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