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Dissimilarity vs Variance - What's the difference?

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Dissimilarity is a related term of variance.


As nouns the difference between dissimilarity and variance

is that dissimilarity is lack of similarity or lack of likeness in appearance to something else while variance is the act of varying or the state of being variable.

dissimilarity

English

Noun

(dissimilarities)
  • lack of similarity or lack of likeness in appearance to something else

    • Antonyms

    * similarity

    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