difference

(noun)

The result of subtracting one quantity from another.

Related Terms

  • Dijfe
  • identity element
  • Distributive
  • sum
  • quotient
  • product
  • associative
  • commutative
  • rational number

Examples of difference in the following topics:

  • MLA: Referencing Different Kinds of Sources

  • Music in Different Keys

    • What difference does key make?
    • The music may look quite different, but the only difference when you listen is that one sounds higher than the other.
    • So why bother with different keys at all?
    • Even now, there are subtle differences between the sound of a piece in one key or another, mostly because of differences in the timbre of various notes on the instruments or voices involved.
    • The same tune looks very different when written in two different major keys.
  • Sensory Difference Thresholds

    • The just-noticeable difference (JND), also known as the difference limen or differential threshold, is the smallest detectable difference between a starting and secondary level of sensory stimulus.
    • In other words, it is the difference in the level of the stimulus needed for a person to recognize that a change has occurred.
    • It's possible to turn the volume up only slightly, making the difference in volume undetectable.
    • The difference threshold is the amount of stimulus change needed to recognize that a change has occurred.
    • If someone changes the volume of a speaker, the difference threshold is the amount it has to be changed in order for listeners to notice a difference.
  • Comparing Matched or Paired Samples

    • The matched pairs have differences arising either from a population that is normal, or because the number of differences is sufficiently large so the distribution of the sample mean of differences is approximately normal.
    • The differences are the data.
    • The differences have a normal distribution .
    • Let μd be the population mean for the differences.
    • We use the subscript d to denote "differences".
  • Mean of All Sample Means (μ x)

    • The mean of the distribution of differences between sample means is equal to the difference between population means.
    • Compute the difference between means M1−M2.
    • The distribution of the differences between means is the sampling distribution of the difference between means.
    • which says that the mean of the distribution of differences between sample means is equal to the difference between population means.
    • Discover that the mean of the distribution of differences between sample means is equal to the difference between population means
  • [PF content: Differences Among the States]

  • [PF content: Differences in State Laws]

  • Mental Health

    • Different classes have different levels of access to treatment and encounter different mental health stressors.
    • Members of different classes encounter different stressors—lower class people likely face more financial stress as it pertains to day-to-day sustenance and well-being, while upper class people might experience stress from the intense social pressures associated with elite circles.
    • Mental health is a socially constructed and socially defined concept; different societies, groups, cultures, institutions, and professions have very different ways of conceptualizing its nature and causes, determining what is mentally healthy, and deciding what interventions are appropriate.
    • Members of different social classes often hold different views on mental health.
    • Similarly, different social classes have different levels of access to mental health interventions and to information about mental health.
  • Checking for independence

    • We computed one possible difference under the independence model in Exercise 1.50, which represents one difference due to chance.
    • Note that the distribution of these simulated differences is centered around 0.
    • We simulated these differences assuming that the independence model was true, and under this condition, we expect the difference to be zero with some random fluctuation.
    • We would generally be surprised to see a difference of exactly 0: sometimes, just by chance, the difference is higher than 0, and other times it is lower than zero.
    • Two of the 100 simulations had a difference of at least 29.2%, the difference observed in the study.
  • Statistical Literacy

    • For each subject a difference score between their initial weight and final weight could be computed.
    • A t test of whether the mean difference score differs significantly from 0 could then be computed.
    • The mean difference score will equal the difference between the mean weight losses of the two groups (61.3 - 11.2 = 50.1).
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