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Variance is a measurement of how spread out numbers are in a data set from the mean. It is calculated by taking the differences between each number and the mean, squaring those differences to make them positive, and dividing the sum of the squares by the total number of values in the set. The variance measures the spread between numbers in a data set from the average.

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Definition of

Variance is a measurement of how spread out numbers are in a data set from the mean. It is calculated by taking the differences between each number and the mean, squaring those differences to make them positive, and dividing the sum of the squares by the total number of values in the set. The variance measures the spread between numbers in a data set from the average.

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Definition of 'Variance'

A measurement of the spread between numbers in a data set. The variance measures how far each number in the set is from the mean. Variance is calculated by taking the differences between each number in the set and the mean, squaring the differences (to make them positive) and dividing the sum of the squares by the number of values in the set.

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