Information about Deviance

Deviance can refer to any of several topics, including:
Deviant behavior is behavior that is a recognized violation of social norms. Formal and informal social controls attempt to prevent or minimize deviance. One such control is through the medicalization of deviance.
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In statistics, deviance is a quantity whose expected values can be used for statistical hypothesis testing.

It is defined as



As a function of θ with y treated as fixed, it is −2 times the log-likelihood.
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