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Mathematics

Error Variance

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Error variance is often called 'noise' in data; in a perfect experiment, it would be zero, but in reality, it's always present and is estimated from the data itself.

Why this is interesting

Why do repeated measurements of the same object never give exactly the same number? That unpredictable scatter is error variance—and it's the key to knowing how much you can trust your data.