a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of def…
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a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance
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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.a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Probability, Computing and technology, Sociology, Social structure, 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 theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Probability, Computing and technology, Sociology, Social structure, 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, Probability, 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) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Sociology, Social structure, Mathematical statistics.a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Sociology, Social structure, 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 distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Computing and technology, Sociology, Social structure, Mathematical statistics.a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance
Used in the same subject area: Data science, Mathematics, Probability, Computing and technology, Sociology, Social structure, 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) 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.
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An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivabl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.How well a measure really captures the idea it is meant to measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribut…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a fini…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.(logic and mathematics) abstract, theoretical organization of terms and implicit relationships that is used as a tool for the analysis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, finite, mean, variance.
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