deviation definition

deviation

General: Departure from an agreed-upon course, design, mean, or method.

Contracting: Variance from a requirement or specification that does not alter the basis of a contract or adversely affects its performance. See also tailoring.

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.

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 and

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