Expected and Variance

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Expected adjective - Being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events.

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Variance and expected are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Variance" instead a noun "Expected".

Variance noun - A lack of agreement or harmony.

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Expected and variance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expected" instead a noun "Variance".

The next roll is the mode of the distribution (the outcome with the highest probability) while 38 is the expected value (the outcome with the least variance).

Source: Gambler's Fallacy
Probability began in the gambling hall (probabilities in card games are easy enough to calculate, but tricky enough to be interesting), but some ideas (expected value, variance, conditional probability) are useful outside of the gambling hall.

Source: Useful Notes / Mathematics
Others will perform astounding feats of Mathhammer in mid-game and tell you exactly how many units of each side should die in an assault, what is the expected variance, and whether or not the assault makes sense in terms of points of enemy units destroyed versus own losses.

Source: Gambler's Fallacy

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