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Heteroscedasticity in hypothesis testing:

In hypothesis testing , heteroscedasticity means a situation in which the variance is different for compared samples. Heteroscedasticity complicates testing because most tests rest on the assumption of equal variance.

See also: homoscedasticity in hypothesis testing

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