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deviate

n. in statistics, the extent to which a score differs from a specified value, such as the mean. Thus, a negative deviate from the mean indicates how much lower than average the score is, whereas a positive deviate from the mean indicates how much higher than average the score is.

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January 30th 2025

Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT)

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