deviate
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deviate englanniksi
A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
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1915: James Cornelius Wilson, ''A Handbook of medical diagnosis'' http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC56783761&id=4B7nMfNnIZkC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=%22a+deviate%22&as_brr=1
- ...Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be...
1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, ''Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing'' http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00181184&id=J24AAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1
- Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court ...
2001: Rupert Brown, ''Group Processes'' http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0631184961&id=e-9OtYRo45cC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=GsTXt6FCAxGzfu9Z1Y5DBjGXb-0
- ...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...
A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
1928: Karl J. Holzinger, ''Statistical Methods for Students in Education'' http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN28006559&id=sKTVf2R9QcQC&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1
- It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...
2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, ''Medical Biostatistics'' http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0824704266&id=DHkXkXhpryAC&pg=RA20-PA279&lpg=RA20-PA279&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=V0CUzyD7DlXKCm_ehD84Trl8J5g
- This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.
2005: Michael J. Crawley, ''Statistics: An Introduction Using R'' http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0470022973&id=czbzO5iD1Z0C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=-Erqbq87cIuqSaSOjXqw7Edaabo
- This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...
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(RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism)
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*(quote-web)
To cause to diverge.
(inflection of)