deviation

Example Sentences

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With tens of thousands of components, small deviations can derail performance, he says, so engineers adjust, test and repeat.

From The Wall Street Journal

“But when you sum them all up together, it’s actually quite a substantial deviation from that standard.”

From Barron's

Z-scores measure a price relative to its history – the more technical way of saying that is how many standard deviations away a data point is from its average.

From MarketWatch

It added that the providers’ actions and the treatments given were common and not a deviation from any applicable standard of care.

From The Wall Street Journal

And yet the VIX finished Friday above 27, a level that is roughly one standard deviation above the index’s long-term average.

From MarketWatch