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Variance vs Assortment - What's the difference?

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Variance is a related term of assortment.


As nouns the difference between variance and assortment

is that variance is the act of varying or the state of being variable while assortment is a collection of varying but related items.

variance

English

Alternative forms

* variaunce * var

Noun

(wikipedia variance) (en noun)
  • The act of varying or the state of being variable
  • A difference between what is expected and what happens
  • The state of differing or being in conflict
  • A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
  • (senseid)(statistics) The second central moment in probability
  • (computing, programming) covariance and contravariance generally

    • assortment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection of varying but related items.
    • This box has an assortment of chocolates, there's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.

    Synonyms

    * diversity, Whitman's sampler * See also