random variation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrandomandvariation
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random
adjective
uk/ˈræn.dəm/us/ˈræn.dəm/
happening, done, or chosen by chance rather than according to ...
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variation
noun
uk/ˌveə.riˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌver.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
a change in amount ...
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(Definition ofrandomandvariationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The model assumes constant tectonic subsidence and arandomvariationin sea level.
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Ideally, residuals consist solely ofrandomvariation, but they may also reveal other systematic variation.
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This procedure compensates for irregularities in the raw score means produced byrandomvariation.
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For borderline symptoms there was significantrandomvariationin both means and linear age changes.
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Indeed, these features both seem to me to be probably due torandomvariation.
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There is usually somerandomvariationin the structure of these periodic processes.
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We took this estimated value as a measure of body size withrandomvariationlargely removed.
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We simplified the design to a generalised amplitude envelope withrandomvariation.
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The variability in vowel epenthesis is greater than that of consonant epenthesis, but it also is notrandomvariation.
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However, the negative binomial distribution does not allow ready extension to additional levels of nestedrandomvariationin the data.
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Estimates from any one centre are subject torandomvariationand likely to be surrounded by wide confidence intervals.
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The estimate of the repulsion recombination fraction can be negative due torandomvariationof the observed phenotype numbers.
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We also addressed the body-size theory, with itsrandomvariationcorollary, through a two-stage least squares procedure.
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Clarifying the issue of gender difference awaits further exploration with larger studies to minimize therandomvariation.
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In essence, fitted or "smoothed" curves compensate for therandomvariationinherent in samples, using sample values to project expected population values.
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Let us begin at the lowest imaginable level of evolution: the genetic modification of organisms throughrandomvariationand natural selection.
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A line segment withrandomvariationcontrols an initial, middle and final trill rate, and the times required to change among the trill rates.
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Variation in capture probability due torandomvariationand changes with weather and season will result in errors in the survival estimates.
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The parent solutions then reproduce, resulting in a new generation of solutions that inherit their characteristics from their parents, with some smallrandomvariation.
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Of course, this is just another example of the general principle that robustness to a parameter means robustness torandomvariationin the same.
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Fluctuations in the simulated germination percentages on a smaller time scale reflect therandomvariationin the population and not short-term oscillations in dormancy.
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When the response behavior is statistically unlikely to be due torandomvariation, the researcher is able to draw a causal inference.
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Somerandomvariationis inevitable and it makes all methods less effective, especially nearest-neighbour methods, which can fail also when there are discontinuities.
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A two-layer random process achieves infinite variation:randomvariationof genetic source segments and random transcriptional splicing of these segments.
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