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homoscedasticity

UK/həʊməʊskɪdæsˈtɪsɪti/US/hoʊmoʊsɪdæsˈtɪsɪti/

homoscedasticity noun: a property of a set of random variables such that each variable has the same finite variance.

Noun

homoscedasticity (usually uncountable, plural homoscedasticities)

  1. (usually) A property of a set of random variables such that each variable has the same finite variance.
    • Before analysis, homoscedasticities of sample variances were assessed by Cochran's C and Bartlett's Box tests.1989, AW Storey, “The freshwater mussel, Westralunio carteri Iredale, as a biological monitor of organochlorine pesticides”, in Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, volume 40, number...
    • Unlike OLS^([Ordinary Least Squares]) regression, logistic regression does not assume linearity of relationship between dependent and independent variables; does not require normally distributed variables; does not assume homoscedasticity; and in general has less stringent requirements.2010, Min Gyo Koo, Island Disputes and Maritime Regime Building in East Asia, footnote, page 46

homoscedasticity meaning in Bengali

homoscedasticity in Bengali

সমভেদ্যতা

Examples of homoscedasticity in a sentence

  • Preliminarily, the weak homoscedasticity of the two classes has been tested:[…].2010, Francesca Greselin, Salvatore Ingrassia, “Weakly Homoscedastic Constraints for Mixtures of t-Distributions”, in Andreas Fink...
  • Thus, Glejser's test also rejects the hypothesis of homoscedasticity.2013, Chandan Mukherjee, Howard White, Marc Wuyts, Econometrics and Data Analysis for Developing Countries, page 264:

Antonyms of homoscedasticity

Forms of homoscedasticity

pluralhomoscedasticities
alternative formhomoskedasticity

Origin of homoscedasticity

From homo- + scedasticity.

Questions about homoscedasticity

What does homoscedasticity mean?
Homoscedasticity means a property of a set of random variables such that each variable has the same finite variance.
What is homoscedasticity in Bengali?
Homoscedasticity in Bengali is সমভেদ্যতা. See Homoscedasticity meaning in Bengali.
How do you use homoscedasticity in a sentence?
Preliminarily, the weak homoscedasticity of the two classes has been tested:[…].
What part of speech is homoscedasticity?
Homoscedasticity is a noun.
How do you pronounce homoscedasticity?
Homoscedasticity is pronounced /həʊməʊskɪdæsˈtɪsɪti/ (UK).
What is the plural of homoscedasticity?
The plural of homoscedasticity is homoscedasticities.

Words near homoscedasticity in the dictionary

  1. homosalates
  2. Homosassa
  3. Homosassa Springs
  4. homoscedastic
  5. homoscedasticities
  6. homoscedasticity
  7. homoschedasticity
  8. homoscleromorph
  9. homoscleromorphs
  10. homosclerophorid
  11. homosclerophorids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homoscedasticity (page history and authors); homoscedasticity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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