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Poisson distribution
a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large
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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…
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a close approximation; "the nearest approach to genius"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.A continual approach or coming nearer to a result; as, to solve an equation by approximation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.a low-level programing language; close approximation to machine language
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphib…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.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, good, approximation, binomial.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, good, approximation, binomial.Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theoretical, distribution, good, approximation, binomial.Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to…
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