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61Cladogram — For help on how to use cladograms in Wikipedia, see Help:Cladograms A horizontal cladogram, with the ancestor (not named) to the left …
62Neighbor joining — This genetic distance map made in 2002 is an estimate of 18 world human groups by a neighbour joining method based on 23 kinds of genetic information. It was made by Saitou Naruya (斎藤成也? …
63List of mathematics articles (F) — NOTOC F F₄ F algebra F coalgebra F distribution F divergence Fσ set F space F test F theory F. and M. Riesz theorem F1 Score Faà di Bruno s formula Face (geometry) Face configuration Face diagonal Facet (mathematics) Facetting… …
64List of mathematics articles (M) — NOTOC M M estimator M group M matrix M separation M set M. C. Escher s legacy M. Riesz extension theorem M/M/1 model Maass wave form Mac Lane s planarity criterion Macaulay brackets Macbeath surface MacCormack method Macdonald polynomial Machin… …
65Likelihood function — In statistics, a likelihood function (often simply the likelihood) is a function of the parameters of a statistical model, defined as follows: the likelihood of a set of parameter values given some observed outcomes is equal to the probability of …
66Gold standard (test) — For other uses, see Gold standard (disambiguation). In medicine and statistics, gold standard test refers to a diagnostic test or benchmark that is the best available under reasonable conditions. It does not have to be necessarily the best… …
67List of mathematics articles (N) — NOTOC N N body problem N category N category number N connected space N dimensional sequential move puzzles N dimensional space N huge cardinal N jet N Mahlo cardinal N monoid N player game N set N skeleton N sphere N! conjecture Nabla symbol… …
68Null hypothesis — For the periodical, see Null Hypothesis: The Journal of Unlikely Science. The practice of science involves formulating and testing hypotheses, assertions that are capable of being proven false using a test of observed data. The null hypothesis… …
69History of scientific method — The history of scientific method is inseparable from the history of science itself. The development and elaboration of rules for scientific reasoning and investigation has not been straightforward; scientific method has been the subject of… …
70Maximum likelihood sequence estimation — (MLSE) is a mathematical algorithm to extract useful data out of a noisy data stream. Contents 1 Theory 2 Background 3 References 4 Further reading …
