ANOVA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ANOVA mean? 

• ANOVA (noun)
  The noun ANOVA has 1 sense:

1. a statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means; a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables

  Familiarity information: ANOVA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANOVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means; a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

analysis of variance; ANOVA

Hypernyms ("ANOVA" is a kind of...):

multivariate analysis (a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

 Context examples 

It is a nonparametric version of ANOVA.

(Kruskal-Wallis Test, NCI Thesaurus)