deviation
Definition 1
General: Departure from an agreed-upon course, design, mean, or method.
Definition 2
Contracting: Variance from a requirement or specification that does not alter the basis of a contract or adversely affects its performance. See also tailoring.
Definition 3
Shipping: Deviation of a shipment from its set-route amounts to a fundamental breach of contract of carriage, and usually imposes certain penalties on the carrier.
Definition 4
Statistics: Variation among the values of a data set when compared with a measure of central tendency such as the mean, median, or mode.
deviation is in the Agreements & Contracts, Planning & Scheduling, Shipping, Transport, & Travel and Statistics, Mathematics, & Analysis subjects.
deviation appears in the definitions of the following terms:
quality loss function,
distortion,
standard deviation,
health effect,
variance,
law of large numbers,
least-squares regression,
tailoring,
cumulative sum control chart,
schedule variance
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