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nouna constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves
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noun(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
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nounany factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performancetype of:
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nouna quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample datatype of:
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- statistics a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
- nonparametric statistic a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
- markoff chain a Markov process for which the parameter is discrete time values
- nonparametric statistics the branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution
- characterisic function (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters
- markov chain a Markov process for which the parameter is discrete time values
- characteristic curve (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters
- stationary stochastic process a stochastic process in which the distribution of the random variables is the same for any value of the variable parameter
- degree of freedom one of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system
- nonparametric not involving an estimation of the parameters of a statistic