helter-skelter vs variance

helter-skelter

noun
  • Confusion or turmoil. 

  • A helical fairground slide. 

adj
  • Carelessly hurried and confused. 

adv
  • In confused, disorderly haste. 

variance

noun
  • The state of differing or being in conflict. 

  • A discrepancy between two legal documents. 

  • A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint. 

  • An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations. 

  • The act of varying or the state of being variable. 

  • The number of degrees of freedom in a system. 

  • Covariance and contravariance generally. 

  • A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation. 

  • The second central moment in probability. 

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