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In probability theory and statistics, the variance of a random variable, probability distribution, or sample is one measure of statistical dispersion, averaging the squared distance of its possible values from the expected value (mean). Whereas the mean is a way to describe the location of a distribution, the variance is a way to capture its scale or degree of being spread out. The unit of variance is the square of the unit of the original variable. The positive square root of the variance, called the standard deviation, has the same units as the original variable and can be easier to interpret for this reason.
The variance of a real-valued random variable is its second central moment, and it also happens to be its second cumulant. Just as some distributions do not have a mean, some do not have a variance. The mean exists whenever the variance exists, but not vice versa.
Use Variance Makes the Use Conforming and No Further Variances Are Required for Expansion Where Original Variance Did Not So Limit
Petitioners are owners of an 8.29-acre shopping center. The original building was constructed in 1956 after the Court at the time determined that the owners had a vested right to build under zoning code provisions applicable to a neighborhood retail district in which the property was situated prior to 1956, despite the fact that the [...
Wow! What A Variance!
United States v. Dauria, No. 08-CR-76 (JBW), 2008 WL 5459197 (E.D.N.Y. Nov. 24, 2008)Maybe Judge Weinstein has a soft-spot for a woman arrested in connection with a February sweep of alleged Gambino organized crime family members...
Upward Variance OK
U.S. v. Taghizadeh, 2008 WL 17901291 (4/21/08) (unpub'd) - The 10th affirms an upward variance from 121 months to 216 months on the grounds that the sexual-exploitation-of-a-minor Guidelines contemplated neither the videotaping of sexual acts [as opposed to sexually explicit poses] nor the defendant participating in the sexual acts...
Every Variance Counts
United States v. Pender, No. 07-CR-874 (JBW), 2009 WL 1181052 (E.D.N.Y. May 1, 2009) Pender faced an advisory Guidelines range of 135 to 168 months for his role in a crack distribution ring,but was sentenced "only" to 120 months imprisonment...
Five-month Variance Affirmed
US v. Duarte-Hurtado, No. 08-2021, 2008 WL 4417197 (10th Cir. 10/1/08)(unpublished): Clearly this was a hard-fought case at every level, but, rejecting the defendant's arguments that a lower sentence was warranted, the Tenth affirms the five-month variance to 36 months (from 41) for a reentry defendant...
"Departure" or "Variance," that is the Question
District courts must speak clearly before striking with a big stick, the Court reiterates in United States v. Brown, No. 08-1221, vacating a child pornography sentence when the record left ambiguous whether the district court had "departed" upward pursuant to a Guidelines application note or "varied" upward on the basis of its own statutory sentencing discretion...
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