percentage of variance

collocation in English

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percentage
noun
uk
/pəˈsen.tɪdʒ/
us
/pɚˈsen.t̬ɪdʒ/
an amount of something, often expressed as a number out ...
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variance
noun
uk
/ˈveə.ri.əns/
us
/ˈver.i.əns/
formal
the fact that two or more things are different, or the amount or number by which they ...
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When it comes to their own key findings, however, they choose to report correlations instead, and fail to report thepercentageofvarianceaccounted for.
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Thepercentageofvariancecorresponding to populations within regions (13.6%) was lower than that corresponding to regions (37.3%).
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Thepercentageofvarianceis the proportion of the total variance explained by each principal component.
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This allowed us to calculate thepercentageofvariancedue exclusively and in common to the two groups of descriptors.
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Thepercentageofvarianceshared by each pair of variables is shown on the lines connecting the different variables in the figure.
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Factor loadings have been squared to index thepercentageofvariancein the variable accounted for by that factor.
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However, thepercentageofvarianceexplained by this correlation coefficient is only 1.96 %.
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The adjustedpercentageofvarianceof psychological distress explained by the model was 47% for males and 37% for females.
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Table 4 contains the variables' loadings in the rotated component matrices, along with initial eigenvalues, rotation sums of squared loadings, and the cumulativepercentageofvarianceexplained.
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In computing the relative contribution of several variables to outcome, a regression test attempts to determine the order in which thepercentageofvarianceexplained would be greatest.
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By contrast, variance components analysis was used to evaluate thepercentageofvariancein ratings associated with practitioners and that associated with specific guidelines (see below).
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The percentages of variance in relation to positive adjustment make clinical sense.
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