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Variance vs Heritability - What's the difference?

variance | heritability |

As nouns the difference between variance and heritability

is that variance is the act of varying or the state of being variable while heritability is (uncountable) the condition of being inheritable.

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

    • heritability

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia heritability)
  • (uncountable) The condition of being inheritable
  • (countable, genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin

    • Synonyms

    * inheritability (much less common )

    Antonyms

    * environmentability