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11sampling — A method for collecting information and drawing inferences about a larger population or universe, from the analysis of only part thereof, the sample. Censuses of the population are an expensive way of monitoring social and economic change, and… …
12random — [ran′dəm] n. [ME randoun < OFr randon, violence, speed (in a randon, violently) < randir, to run violently < Frank * rant, a running, akin to OHG rinnan, to RUN] impetuous and haphazard movement: now only in at random, without careful… …
13Systematic sampling — is a statistical method involving the selection of every k th element from a sampling frame, where k , the sampling interval, is calculated as:::: k = population size ( N ) / sample size ( n )Using this procedure each element in the population… …
14evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… …
15Randomness — Random redirects here. For other uses, see Random (disambiguation). For a random Wikipedia article, see Special:Random. For information about Wikipedia s random article feature, see Wikipedia:Random. Randomness has somewhat differing meanings as… …
16Computational phylogenetics — is the application of computational algorithms, methods and programs to phylogenetic analyses. The goal is to assemble a phylogenetic tree representing a hypothesis about the evolutionary ancestry of a set of genes, species, or other taxa. For… …
17combinatorics — /keuhm buy neuh tawr iks, tor , kom beuh /, n. (used with singular v.) See combinatorial analysis. * * * Branch of mathematics concerned with the selection, arrangement, and combination of objects chosen from a finite set. The number of possible… …
18Chess960 starting position — Chess960 is a chess variant in which the arrangement of pieces on the first rank is randomly generated. There are 960 possible starting positions, hence the name. The starting position can be generated before the game either by a computer program …
19Kernel density estimation — of 100 normally distributed random numbers using different smoothing bandwidths. In statistics, kernel density estimation is a non parametric way of estimating the probability density function of a random variable. Kernel density estimation is a… …
20Computerized classification test — A computerized classification test (CCT) refers to, as its name would suggest, a test that is administered by computer for the purpose of classifying examinees. The most common CCT is a mastery test where the test classifies examinees as Pass or… …
