constant variance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconstantandvariance
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constant
adjective
uk/ˈkɒn.stənt/us/ˈkɑːn.stənt/
happening a lot or all ...
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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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Once a model had been defined, its validity was checked, by examining the residuals for normality andconstantvariance.
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Note that, in this model, it is assumed that the shocks haveconstantvarianceand only t is uncertain.
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The variance was chosen to produce levels of genetic variance comparable to those for theconstantvariancesituation examined above.
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This behavior can be explained by the boundedness of the time series of the price, which leads toconstantvarianceof returns.
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Initially, these were assumed to represent independent random variables each withconstantvariance, denoted by s2=s2cf and s2 respectively.
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However, numerical simulations (not reported here) also indicate that the results are quite similar to those obtained here withconstantvariance.
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The first row tests the hypothesis that (logarithmic) returns are normally distributed with a zero mean andconstantvariance.
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One of these is that the error term has aconstantvariance.
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Estimations and significance tests of variance components assume constant variances and normality, irrespective of which method of fitting is used.
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To allow for this channel to work through second moments in our setup, we would have to relax the assumption of constant variances of the shocks.
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