Statistics terms in French I am reading through some statistical PhDs in French and the term "ecart-type" is used, which my dictionary gives as standard deviation, but from the mathematical context I think that in fact variance is meant. "Ecart" back translates to "variance" as well as "deviation" though, whilst of course the English word "variance" is given in French as "variance" but of course here it's hard to make sure that the context is strictly statistical. Are there any francophone statisticians out there who can clear up this confusion for me? Je vous en remercie Nick Wray

Actually you got it right in the first place: écart-type is standard deviation while variance is the same word in French.
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