multideviation

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ deviation.

Noun

multideviation (plural multideviations)

1. (mathematics) A generalization of standard deviation to higher orders.
   • 2015, Brandon Fogel, “Multideviations: The hidden structure of Bell's theorems”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     In Part I, I introduce the multideviation framework and then use it to prove an important theorem: the Bell distributions can be generated from the set of joint distributions over all observables by deeming specific degrees of freedom unobservable.

2. (statistics) A distance of more than two standard deviations from the mean.