the index of dispersion, dispersion index, coefficient of dispersion, relative variance, or variance-to-mean ratio (VMR), like the coefficient of variation...

dispersion, a quantifiable variation of measurements of differing members of a population Index of dispersion, a normalized measure of the dispersion...

Dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency. Sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used for to refer...

Morisita's overlap index, named after Masaaki Morisita, is a statistical measure of dispersion of individuals in a population. It is used to compare overlap...

statistics, dispersion (also called variability, scatter, or spread) is the extent to which a distribution is stretched or squeezed. Common examples of measures...

Low-dispersion glass (LD glass) is a type of glass with reduced chromatic aberration, meaning the refractive index does not change as strongly with different...

Lloyd's index of crowding. Fisher's index of dispersion is I D = ( n − 1 ) s 2 m {\displaystyle \mathrm {ID} ={\frac {(n-1)s^{2}}{m}}} This index may be...

well in describing dispersion. Sellmeier coefficients are often quoted instead of the refractive index in tables. Because of dispersion, it is usually important...

variables Index (economics) Index number Index of coincidence Index of dispersion Index of dissimilarity Indicators of spatial association Indirect least squares...

variation is λ − 1 / 2 , {\textstyle \lambda ^{-1/2},} while the index of dispersion is 1.: 163  The mean absolute deviation about the mean is: 163  E...

Some of these are Canada's Air Quality Health Index, Malaysia's Air Pollution Index, and Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index. Computation of the AQI...

matrix, dispersion matrix, variance matrix, or variance–covariance matrix) is a square matrix giving the covariance between each pair of elements of a given...

times distorts the shape. Modal dispersion limits the bandwidth of multimode fibers. For example, a typical step-index fiber with a 50 μm core would be...

minimizes modal dispersion. Multi-mode optical fiber can be built with either a graded-index or a step-index profile. The advantage of graded-index multi-mode...

statistics, the interquartile range (IQR) is a measure of statistical dispersion, which is the spread of the data. The IQR may also be called the midspread...

optical fiber, the zero-dispersion wavelength is the wavelength or wavelengths at which material dispersion and waveguide dispersion cancel one another. In...

the MAD measure of dispersion.[citation needed] Other names for this measure are Galton's measure of skewness, the Yule–Kendall index and the quartile...

Atmospheric dispersion modeling is the mathematical simulation of how air pollutants disperse in the ambient atmosphere. It is performed with computer...

location parameter dispersion parameter or scale parameter shape parameter Where a probability distribution has a domain over a set of objects that are...

of some type of linear correlation, meaning a statistical relationship between two variables. The variables may be two columns of a given data set of...

( i ) {\displaystyle x_{(i)}} with parentheses enclosing the subscript index i is the ith order statistic, i.e., the ith-smallest number in the sample...

{\displaystyle \gamma } % of the time. The confidence level, degree of confidence or confidence coefficient represents the long-run proportion of CIs (at the given...

tendency of quantitative data to cluster around some central value." The central tendency of a distribution is typically contrasted with its dispersion or variability;...

one of them produces a different average. Secondly, in this situation, 0° (or 360°) is geometrically a better average value: there is lower dispersion about...

observations in a measure of location, or central tendency, such as the arithmetic mean a measure of statistical dispersion like the standard mean absolute...

Replicability-Index. Retrieved 7 March 2017. Marden JI (December 2000). "Hypothesis Testing: From p Values to Bayes Factors". Journal of the American Statistical...

the distribution of the test statistic under the null hypothesis can be approximated by a normal distribution. Z-test tests the mean of a distribution....

between refractive index and wavelength for a particular transparent medium. The equation is used to determine the dispersion of light in the medium...

measures of central tendency and measures of variability or dispersion. Measures of central tendency include the mean, median and mode, while measures of variability...

length). The spacings in each subsection of the box-plot indicate the degree of dispersion (spread) and skewness of the data, which are usually described...