a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of def…
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Linear regression
the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b
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(statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which ca…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be comput…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population stat…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) correlated variation
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value depends on the independent variable; "if f(x)=y, y is the…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles.; "From the set of data above…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Research methods, Quantitative methods, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population stat…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles.; "From the set of data above…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Research methods, Quantitative methods, Mathematical statistics.a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles.; "From the set of data above…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Research methods, Quantitative methods, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of…
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Mathematical statistics.(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Research methods, Mathematical statistics.the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum
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Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octav…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.a relation between people; (‘relationship’ is often used where ‘relation’ would serve, as in ‘the relationship between inflation and u…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, variables, regression, equation, linear.
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