analysis of variance

American

noun

Statistics.

a procedure for resolving the total variance of a set of variates into component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting the variates.

analysis of variance British

noun

ANOVA. statistics any of a number of techniques for resolving the observed variance between sets of data into components, esp to determine whether the difference between two samples is explicable as random sampling variation with the same underlying population

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Etymology

Origin of analysis of variance

First recorded in 1935–40

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