• statistics, the variance function is a smooth function that depicts the variance of a random quantity as a function of its mean. The variance function is a measure...
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    In probability theory and statistics, variance is the expected value of the squared deviation from the mean of a random variable. The standard deviation...
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    function erf ⁡ ( x ) {\textstyle \operatorname {erf} (x)} gives the probability of a random variable, with normal distribution of mean 0 and variance...
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  • ^{2})=\operatorname {Tw} _{p}(c\mu ,c^{2-p}\sigma ^{2}).} To define the variance function for exponential dispersion models we make use of the mean value mapping...
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    In statistics and machine learning, the bias–variance tradeoff describes the relationship between a model's complexity, the accuracy of its predictions...
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  • response variable via a link function and by allowing the magnitude of the variance of each measurement to be a function of its predicted value. Generalized...
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  • Standard score Information ratio Omega ratio Sampling (statistics) Variance function Everitt, Brian (1998). The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics. Cambridge...
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    The Allan variance (AVAR), also known as two-sample variance, is a measure of frequency stability in clocks, oscillators and amplifiers. It is named after...
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  • Cats and a list of Animals, or a function returning Cat and a function returning Animal. Depending on the variance of the type constructor, the subtyping...
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  • the conditional variance function, V a r ( Y ∣ X ) = σ 2 ( μ ) {\displaystyle {\rm {{Var}(Y\mid X)=\sigma ^{2}(\mu )}}} , as a function of the conditional...
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  • Gaussian functions is a Gaussian, and the convolution of two Gaussian functions is also a Gaussian, with variance being the sum of the original variances: c...
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  • NEF, called NEF with quadratic variance function (NEF-QVF) because the variance can be written as a quadratic function of the mean. NEF-QVF are discussed...
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  • econometrics, the conditional variance is also known as the scedastic function or skedastic function. Conditional variances are important parts of autoregressive...
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    distribution when marginalizing over the variance parameter. Student's t distribution has the probability density function (PDF) given by f ( t ) = Γ ( ν + 1...
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    all its random variables have the same finite variance; this is also known as homogeneity of variance. The complementary notion is called heteroscedasticity...
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  • {Var} [Y]=\sigma ^{2}A''(\theta )=\sigma ^{2}V(\mu )\,\!,} with unit variance function V ( μ ) = A ″ ( ( A ′ ) − 1 ( μ ) ) {\displaystyle V(\mu )=A''((A')^{-1}(\mu...
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    the square root of the variance, known as the standard error. The MSE either assesses the quality of a predictor (i.e., a function mapping arbitrary inputs...
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    or probability distribution is the square root of its variance. (For a finite population, variance is the average of the squared deviations from the mean...
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    (1-\mu )} The accompanying plot of skewness as a function of variance and mean shows that maximum variance (1/4) is coupled with zero skewness and the symmetry...
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  • In statistics, the variance inflation factor (VIF) is the ratio (quotient) of the variance of a parameter estimate when fitting a full model that includes...
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    a probability density function (PDF), density function, or density of an absolutely continuous random variable, is a function whose value at any given...
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  • minimum-variance unbiased estimator (MVUE) or uniformly minimum-variance unbiased estimator (UMVUE) is an unbiased estimator that has lower variance than...
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    cumulative distribution function (CDF) of a real-valued random variable X {\displaystyle X} , or just distribution function of X {\displaystyle X} ,...
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  • model that asymptotically manifests a variance to mean power law will be required express a variance function that comes within the domain of attraction...
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    matrix (also known as auto-covariance matrix, dispersion matrix, variance matrix, or variance–covariance matrix) is a square matrix giving the covariance between...
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  • mean and the variance is specified in the form of a variance function giving the variance as a function of the mean. Generally, this function is allowed...
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    with variance tending to zero. (However, even in some applications, highly oscillatory functions are used as approximations to the delta function, see...
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    diverge to infinity even faster than sample variance. If a probability distribution has a density function f ( x ) {\displaystyle f(x)} , then the mean...
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    distribution function of a continuous probability distribution that is peaked around zero and has a parameter that controls for variance can serve as...
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  • inertia. If the function is a probability distribution, then the first moment is the expected value, the second central moment is the variance, the third standardized...
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