Timeline for What is the practical application of variance?
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| Oct 3, 2013 at 16:35 | comment | added | gung - Reinstate Monica | The SD is more intuitive because it is on the same scale as the data. However, when working with the normal distribution, the variance is the parameter not the SD. Thus, variances can be more useful when working with distributions mathematically. Eg, variances add, but SDs don't. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 13:44 | answer | added | Jeffrey Edwards | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 19:01 | answer | added | Ram Ahluwalia | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 17:47 | vote | accept | Andrew | ||
| Apr 28, 2011 at 14:36 | comment | added | whuber♦ | Take a look at an ANOVA table. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 7:58 | history | edited | user88 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2011 at 6:49 | answer | added | Nick Sabbe | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 6:13 | answer | added | abutcher | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 6:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackStats/status/63484940075008000 | ||
| Apr 28, 2011 at 4:51 | history | asked | Andrew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |