text: # Law of Total Variance
  
  In probability theory, the law of total variance or variance decomposition formula, also known by the acronym EVVE (or Eve's law), states that if X and Y are random variables on the same probability space, and the variance of Y is finite, then
  
  Some writers on probability call this the "conditional variance formula". In language perhaps better known to statisticians than to probabilists, the two terms are the "unexplained" and the "explained component of the variance" (cf. fraction of variance unexplained, explained variation).
  
  There is a general variance decomposition formula for c2 components (see below) . For example, with two conditioning random variables:
  
  which follows from the law of total conditional variance:
  
  Note that the conditional expected value E( Y | X ) is a random variable in its own right, whose value depends on the value of X. Notice that the conditional expected value of Y given the event X = x is a function of x (this is where adherence to the conventional and rigidly case-sensitive notation of probability theory becomes important!). If we write E( Y | X = x ) = g(x) then the random variable E( Y | X ) is just g(X). Similar comments apply to the conditional variance.
  
  Read more about Law Of Total Variance:  Proof, General Variance Decomposition Applicable To Dynamic Systems, The Square of The Correlation and Explained (or Informational) Variation, Higher Moments
  
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  Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
  And never yet could frame my will to it,
  And therefore frame the law unto my will.
  William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
  
  By sharing the information and observations with the caregiver, you have a chance to see your child through another pair of eyes. Because she has some distance and objectivity, a caregiver often sees things that a parent’s total involvement with her child doesn’t allow.
  Amy Laura Dombro (20th century)
  
  There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.
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distilabel_metadata.content: # Law of Total Variance
  
  In probability theory, the law of total variance or variance decomposition formula, also known by the acronym EVVE (or Eve's law), states that if X and Y are random variables on the same probability space, and the variance of Y is finite, then
  
  Some writers on probability call this the "conditional variance formula". In language perhaps better known to statisticians than to probabilists, the two terms are the "unexplained" and the "explained component of the variance" (cf. fraction of variance unexplained, explained variation).
  
  There is a general variance decomposition formula for c2 components (see below) . For example, with two conditioning random variables:
  
  which follows from the law of total conditional variance:
  
  Note that the conditional expected value E( Y | X ) is a random variable in its own right, whose value depends on the value of X. Notice that the conditional expected value of Y given the event X = x is a function of x (this is where adherence to the conventional and rigidly case-sensitive notation of probability theory becomes important!). If we write E( Y | X = x ) = g(x) then the random variable E( Y | X ) is just g(X). Similar comments apply to the conditional variance.
  
  Read more about Law Of Total Variance:  Proof, General Variance Decomposition Applicable To Dynamic Systems, The Square of The Correlation and Explained (or Informational) Variation, Higher Moments
  
  ### Famous quotes containing the words law, total and/or variance:
  
  Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
  And never yet could frame my will to it,
  And therefore frame the law unto my will.
  William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
  
  By sharing the information and observations with the caregiver, you have a chance to see your child through another pair of eyes. Because she has some distance and objectivity, a caregiver often sees things that a parent’s total involvement with her child doesn’t allow.
  Amy Laura Dombro (20th century)
  
  There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.
  Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873)
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