In statistics, explained variation measures the proportion to which a mathematical model accounts for the variation (dispersion) of a given data set. Often...

number of clusters in a data set. The method consists of plotting the explained variation as a function of the number of clusters and picking the elbow of...

represents the data being modelled. In particular, the explained sum of squares measures how much variation there is in the modelled values and this is compared...

Continuum (pl.: continua or continuums) theories or models explain variation as involving gradual quantitative transitions without abrupt changes or discontinuities...

Edward Elgar composed his Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, popularly known as the Enigma Variations, between October 1898 and February 1899. It...

Variations is a series of works by the American composer John Cage. A number of the pieces in the series are seminal examples of indeterminate music, others...

The calculus of variations (or variational calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions and...

would happen if the other covariates explained a great deal of the variation of y, but they mainly explain variation in a way that is complementary to what...

Vertical pressure variation is the variation in pressure as a function of elevation. Depending on the fluid in question and the context being referred...

unexplained death syndrome Unexplained variation/randomness/variance, in statistics, see Explained variation Fraction of variance unexplained Fort: Prophet...

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought is a 2001 book by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer, in which the author discusses...

compares the amount of variation between the group means to the amount of variation within each group. If the between-group variation is substantially larger...

Unwarranted variation (or geographic variation) in health care service delivery refers to medical practice pattern variation that cannot be explained by illness...

In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high air temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day. Temperature...

behavioristic concept introduced by Jack Michael in 1982. It is used to explain variations in the effects in the consequences of behavior. Most importantly,...

The secular variation of a time series is its long-term, non-periodic variation (see Decomposition of time series). Whether a variation is perceived as...

Genetic variation is the difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations among the same species. The multiple sources of genetic...

methods: Elbow method (clustering): This method involves plotting the explained variation as a function of the number of clusters, and picking the elbow of...

sociologist Donald Black, which uses a multi-dimensional model to explain variations in the behavior of social life. In Black's own use and application...

gun worn as a jetpack that shoots a laser beam with a time limit. Many variations on this, such as a shotgun that launches the player at a great distance...

Human genetic variation is the genetic differences in and among populations. There may be multiple variants of any given gene in the human population...

Copy number variation (CNV) is a phenomenon in which sections of the genome are repeated and the number of repeats in the genome varies between individuals...

theory became the dominant paradigm among scholars in the 1990s for explaining variations between welfare states in advanced democracies, there are criticisms...

initially used to explain variation in legal behavior. Since then, Black and other pure sociologists have used the strategy to explain terrorism, genocide...

with a very strong novelty. Lasker Variation: 5...0-0 6.e3 h6 (Neo-orthodox Variation) 7.Bh4 Ne4 (Lasker Variation) 8.Bxe7 Qxe7, is also a solid line...

stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system. A variation appears in The Wheels of Chance...

both the genetic and the cultural theories is their inability to explain variation in Jewish intellectual attainment over time. Instead of speculating...

foundations theory is a social psychological theory intended to explain the origins of and variation in human moral reasoning on the basis of innate, modular...

are often found on different chromosomes. The number of QTLs which explain variation in the phenotypic trait indicates the genetic architecture of a trait...

replicated by the model, based on the proportion of total variation of outcomes explained by the model. There are several definitions of R2 that are...