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deviate
noun
(
sociology
) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
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 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 is a 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 initially...
(
statistics
) 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 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 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 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...
Translations:
verb
(
deviat, ing
)
(
intransitive
) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
He's
deviating
from the course. Follow him!
(
intransitive
) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
Translations:
Etymology:
Late
deviatus
, p.p. of
deviare
, from the phrase
de via
.
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