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In [[probability theory]], the '''law of total variance'''<ref>Neil A. Weiss, ''A Course in Probability'', Addison&ndash;Wesley, 2005, pages 385&ndash;386.</ref> or '''variance decomposition formula''', states that if ''X'' and ''Y'' are [[random variable]]s on the same [[probability space]], and the [[variance]] of ''Y'' is finite, then


:<math>\operatorname{Var}[Y]=\operatorname{E}(\operatorname{Var}[Y\mid X])+\operatorname{Var}(\operatorname{E}[Y\mid X]).\,</math>


Some writers on probability call this the "conditional variance formula". In language perhaps better known to statisticians than to probabilists, the two terms are the "unexplained" and the "explained" components of the variance (cf. [[fraction of variance unexplained]], [[explained variation]]).
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There is a general variance decomposition formula for ''c''&nbsp;≥&nbsp;2 components (see below).<ref name=bs>Bowsher, C.G. and P.S. Swain, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2012: 109, E1320&ndash;29.</ref> For example, with two conditioning random variables:
 
:<math>\operatorname{Var}[Y]=\operatorname{E}(\operatorname{Var}[Y\mid X_1 , X_2])+ \operatorname{E}(\operatorname{Var}[\operatorname{E}[Y\mid X_1,X_2]\mid X_1]) + \operatorname{Var}(\operatorname{E}[Y\mid X_1]),\,</math>
 
which follows from the law of total conditional variance:<ref name=bs />
 
:<math>\operatorname{Var}[Y\mid X_1]=\operatorname{E}(\operatorname{Var}[Y\mid X_1,X_2]\mid X_1)+\operatorname{Var}(\operatorname{E}[Y\mid X_1,X_2]\mid X_1).\,</math>
 
Note that the [[conditional expected value]] {{nowrap|E( ''Y'' &#124; ''X'' )}} is a random variable in its own right, whose value depends on the value of ''X''.  Notice that the conditional expected value of ''Y'' given the ''event''  ''X''&nbsp;=&nbsp;''x'' is a function of ''x'' (this is where adherence to the conventional and rigidly case-sensitive notation of probability theory becomes important!).  If we write E( ''Y'' | ''X'' = ''x'' ) = ''g''(''x'') then the random variable {{nowrap|E( ''Y'' &#124; ''X'' )}} is just ''g''(''X''). Similar comments apply to the [[conditional variance]].
 
==Proof==
 
The law of total variance can be proved using the [[law of total expectation]].<ref>Neil A. Weiss, ''A Course in Probability'', Addison&ndash;Wesley, 2005, pages 380&ndash;383.</ref> First,
 
:<math>\operatorname{Var}[Y] = \operatorname{E}[Y^2] - \operatorname [E[Y]]^2</math>
 
from the definition of variance. Then we apply the law of total expectation to each term by conditioning on the random variable&nbsp;''X'':
 
::<math>= \operatorname{E}_X\left[\operatorname{E}[Y^2\mid X]\right] - \operatorname[{E}_X\left[\operatorname{E}[Y\mid X]\right]]^2</math>
 
Now we rewrite the conditional second moment of Y in terms of its variance and first moment:
 
::<math>= \operatorname{E}_X\!\left[\operatorname{Var}[Y\mid X] + \operatorname{E}[Y\mid X]^2\right] - \operatorname{E}_X[\operatorname{E}[Y\mid X]]^2</math>
 
Since the expectation of a sum is the sum of expectations, the terms can now be regrouped:
 
::<math>= \operatorname{E}_X[\operatorname{Var}[Y\mid X]] + \left(\operatorname{E}_X\left[\operatorname{E}[Y\mid X]^2] - \operatorname{E}_X[\operatorname{E}[Y\mid X]\right]^2\right)</math>
 
Finally, we recognize the terms in parentheses as the variance of the conditional expectation E[''Y''|''X'']:
 
::<math>= \operatorname{E}_X\left[\operatorname{Var}[Y\mid X]\right] + \operatorname{Var}_X\left[\operatorname{E}[Y\mid X]\right]</math>
 
==General variance decomposition applicable to dynamic systems==
 
The following formula shows how to apply the general, measure theoretic variance decomposition formula <ref name=bs /> to stochastic dynamic systems. Let ''Y''(''t'') be the value of a system variable at time ''t''. Suppose we have the internal histories ([[natural filtration]]s) <math>H_{1t},H_{2t},\ldots,H_{c-1,t}</math>, each one
corresponding to the history (trajectory) of a different collection of system variables. The collections need not be disjoint. The variance of ''Y''(''t'') can be decomposed, for all times&nbsp;''t'', into ''c''&nbsp;≥&nbsp;2 components as follows:
 
:<math>\operatorname{Var}[Y(t)] = \operatorname{E}(\operatorname{Var}[Y(t)\mid H_{1t},H_{2t},\ldots,H_{c-1,t}])+ \sum_{j=2}^{c-1}\operatorname{E}(\operatorname{Var}[\operatorname{E}[Y(t)\mid H_{1t},H_{2t},\ldots,H_{jt}]\mid H_{1t},H_{2t},\ldots,H_{j-1,t}])+ \operatorname{Var}(\operatorname{E}[Y(t)\mid H_{1t}]).\,</math>
 
The decomposition is not unique. It depends on the order of the conditioning in the sequential decomposition.
 
==The square of the correlation and explained (or informational) variation==
 
In cases where (''Y'',&nbsp;''X'') are such that the conditional expected value is linear; i.e., in cases where
 
:<math>\operatorname{E}(Y \mid X)=aX+b,\,</math>
 
it follows from the bilinearity of Cov(-,-) that 
:<math>a={\operatorname{Cov}(Y,X) \over \operatorname{Var}(X)}</math>
 
and
 
: <math>b=\operatorname{E}(Y)-{\operatorname{Cov}(Y,X)\over \operatorname{Var}(X)} \operatorname{E}(X)</math>
 
and the explained component of the variance divided by the total variance is just the square of the [[correlation]] between ''Y'' and ''X''; i.e., in such cases,
 
:<math>{\operatorname{Var}(\operatorname{E}(Y\mid X)) \over \operatorname{Var}(Y)} = \operatorname{Corr}(X,Y)^2.\,</math>
 
One example of this situation is when (''X'', ''Y'') have a bivariate normal (Gaussian) distribution.
 
More generally, when the conditional expectation {{nowrap|E( ''Y'' &#124; ''X'' )}}  is a non-linear function of&nbsp;''X''
 
:<math> \iota_{Y\mid X} = {\operatorname{Var}(\operatorname{E}(Y\mid X)) \over \operatorname{Var}(Y)} = \operatorname{Corr}(\operatorname{E}(Y\mid X),Y)^2,\,</math> <ref name=bs />
 
which can be estimated as the ''R'' squared from a non-linear regression of ''Y'' on ''X'', using data drawn from the joint distribution of (''X'',''Y''). When {{nowrap|E( ''Y'' &#124; ''X'' )}} has a Gaussian distribution (and is an invertible function of ''X''), or ''Y'' itself has a (marginal) Gaussian distribution, this explained component of variation sets a lower bound on the [[mutual information]]:<ref name=bs />
 
:<math>\operatorname{I}(Y;X) \ge \ln ([1 - \iota_{Y\mid X}]^{-1/2}).\,</math>
 
==Higher moments==
 
A similar law for the third [[central moment]] ''μ''<sub>3</sub> says
 
:<math>\mu_3(Y)=\operatorname{E}(\mu_3(Y\mid X))+\mu_3(\operatorname{E}(Y\mid X))
+3\,\operatorname{cov}(\operatorname{E}(Y\mid X),\operatorname{var}(Y\mid X)).\,</math>
 
For higher [[cumulant]]s, a simple and elegant generalization exists.  See [[law of total cumulance]].
 
==See also==
* [[Law of total covariance]], a generalization
 
==References==
 
{{reflist}}
* {{cite book | last=Billingsley | first=Patrick | title=Probability and Measure | publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | location=New York, NY | year=1995 | isbn=0-471-00710-2}} (Problem 34.10(b))
<!-- * {{cite book | last=Weiss | first=Neil | title=A Course in Probability | publisher=Addison Wesley | isbn=0-201-77471-2 | year=2005 }} -->
 
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