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  2. Variation - Wikipedia

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    Genetic variation, the difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations Human genetic variation, genetic differences in and among populations of humans; Magnetic variation, difference between magnetic north and true north, measured as an angle; p-variation in mathematical analysis, a family of seminorms of functions

  3. Calculus of variations - Wikipedia

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    Calculus of variations is concerned with variations of functionals, which are small changes in the functional's value due to small changes in the function that is its argument. The first variation [l] is defined as the linear part of the change in the functional, and the second variation [m] is defined as the quadratic part. [22]

  4. Genetic variation - Wikipedia

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    Genetic variation is the difference in DNA among individuals [1] or the differences between populations among the same species. [2] The multiple sources of genetic variation include mutation and genetic recombination. [3] Mutations are the ultimate sources of genetic variation, but other mechanisms, such as genetic drift, contribute to it, as ...

  5. Variance - Wikipedia

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    Coefficient of variation; Homoscedasticity; Least-squares spectral analysis for computing a frequency spectrum with spectral magnitudes in % of variance or in dB; Modern portfolio theory; Popoviciu's inequality on variances; Measures for statistical dispersion; Variance-stabilizing transformation

  6. Total variation - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the total variation identifies several slightly different concepts, related to the (local or global) structure of the codomain of a function or a measure.For a real-valued continuous function f, defined on an interval [a, b] ⊂ R, its total variation on the interval of definition is a measure of the one-dimensional arclength of the curve with parametric equation x ↦ f(x ...

  7. Variation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Variation is a characteristic of language: there is more than one way of saying the same thing in a given language. Variation can exist in domains such as pronunciation (e.g., more than one way of pronouncing the same phoneme or the same word), lexicon (e.g., multiple words with the same meaning), grammar (e.g., different syntactic constructions expressing the same grammatical function), and ...

  8. Common cause and special cause (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    This common-cause variation is evident from the experience base. However, new, unanticipated, emergent or previously neglected phenomena (e.g. "new diseases") result in variation outside the historical experience base. Shewhart and Deming argued that such special-cause variation is fundamentally unpredictable in frequency of occurrence or in ...

  9. Modes of variation - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, modes of variation [1] are a continuously indexed set of vectors or functions that are centered at a mean and are used to depict the variation in a population or sample. Typically, variation patterns in the data can be decomposed in descending order of eigenvalues with the directions represented by the corresponding eigenvectors ...