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Homoscedasticity in hypothesis testing:

In hypothesis testing , homoscedasticity means a situation in which the variance is the same for all the compared samples. Homoscedasticity facilitates testing because most tests rest on the assumption of equal variance.

See also: heteroscedasticity , heteroscedasticity in hypothesis testing

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