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ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means; a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables
Synonyms:
analysis of variance; ANOVA
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("analysis of variance" is a kind of...):
multivariate analysis (a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)