Essentials of Statistics (5th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32192-459-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-32192-459-9

Chapter 3 - Statistics for Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data - 3-3 Measures of Variation - Page 106: 3

Answer

Variation: difference between expected output and actual output, variance:difference between a piece of the set of data and the mean of the set of data.

Work Step by Step

Variation is the difference between the expected output and the actual output, whereas variance is the difference between a piece of the set of data and the mean of the set of data.
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