From advanced nursing classes to courses in child development, the curriculum includes an array of both classroom-based and experiential courses that will provide the necessary knowledge and skills for working in pediatrics.
The Project Management Institute, however, endorses the accepted convention that a negative variance is a bad thing, and a positive variance a good thing. A variance is the difference between the projected budget and the actual performance for a particular account. A negative variance means that the budgeted amount was greater than the actual amount spent. A positive variance means that the budgeted amount was less than the actual amount spent. Note there is some debate over whether a negative variance means an underrun or an overrun.
The sample variance sÂ² is the best point estimate (or single value estimate) of the population variance ÏÂ². The sample standard deviation s is commonly used as a point estimate of Ï ( even though it is a biased estimator). (Sec 6-4 showed that sÂ² is an unbiased estimator of ÏÂ², but s is a biased estimator of Ï.)