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.
To calculate the Variance, take each difference, square it, and then average the result: So the Variance is 21,704. And the Standard Deviation is just the square root of Variance, so: And the good thing about the Standard Deviation is that it is useful.