empirical observations
1Empirical modelling — refers to any kind of (computer) modelling based on empirical observations rather than on mathematically describable relationsships of the system modelled. EMEmpirical Modelling (EM), spelt with capitals to denote a particular approach and to… …
2empirical — 01. A wealth of [empirical] evidence has been found to support his hypothesis. 02. There is little [empirical] evidence at this point to support his theories. 03. They have based their hypothesis on [empirically] based research done at Cambridge… …
3Empirical statistical laws — An empirical statistical law or (in popular terminology) a law of statistics represents a type of behaviour that has been found across a number of datasets and, indeed, across a range of types of data sets. Many of these observances have been… …
4Empirical measure — In probability theory, an empirical measure is a random measure arising from a particular realization of a (usually finite) sequence of random variables. The precise definition is found below. Empirical measures are relevant to mathematical… …
5Empirical — A central concept in science and the scientific method is that all evidence must be empirical, or empirically based, that is, dependent on evidence or consequences that are observable by the senses. Empirical data are data that are produced by… …
6empirical rule — noun That a normal distribution has 68% of its observations within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% within two, and 99.7% within three. Syn: 68–95–99.7 rule …
7empirical — adjective a) Pertaining to or based on experience. b) Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses. Syn: empiric Ant …
8Is logic empirical? — is the title of two articles that discuss the idea that the algebraic properties of logic may, or should, be empirically determined; in particular, they deal with the question of whether empirical facts about quantum phenomena may provide grounds …
9Semi-empirical mass formula — In nuclear physics, the semi empirical mass formula (SEMF), sometimes also called Weizsäcker s formula, is a formula used to approximate the mass and various other properties of an atomic nucleus. As the name suggests, it is partially based on… …
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