ANOVA

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A form of analysis of variance — A collection of statistical models, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance is partitioned into components due to different explanatory variables.

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nounANOVA (plural ANOVAs)

plural ANOVAs

  1. abbreviationacronymmathematicsAcronym of analysis of variance.

    2015, John Ashton, "ANOVA and the analysis of drug combination experiments", Nature Methods 12 (12): 1108, doi:10.1038/nmeth.3663. Factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) can be very misleading in drug combination studies.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means; a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables

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analysis of variance
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multivariate analysis
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