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51Factor analysis — is a statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms of a potentially lower number of unobserved, uncorrelated variables called factors. In other words, it is possible, for example, that variations in …
52Peirce, Charles Sanders — American pragmatism Peirce Cheryl Misak INTRODUCTION Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), one of America’s greatest philosophers, mathematicians, and logicians, was a difficult and not altogether pleasant character. That, combined with what the… …
53Weasel program — Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. The weasel program, Dawkins weasel, or the Dawkins weasel is a thought experiment and a… …
54HEBREW LITERATURE, MODERN — definition and scope beginnings periodization …
55LAW OF RETURN — LAW OF RETURN, law passed by the Israel parliament (Knesset) on July 3, 1950, the anniversary of the death of theodor herzl . The Law of Return is one of the earliest and most significant of the basic laws of the State of Israel. Declaring that… …
56Le Samouraï — Infobox Film | name =Le Samouraï caption = director = Jean Pierre Melville producer = Raymond Borderie Eugène Lépicier writer = Joan McLeod novel The Ronin (uncredited) Jean Pierre Melville Georges Pellegrin starring =Alain Delon François Périer… …
57Physical attractiveness — …
58Segmentation based object categorization — The image segmentation problem is concerned with partitioning an image into multiple regions according to some homogeneity criterion. This article is primarily concerned with graph theoretic approaches to image segmentation. Applications of Image …
59Consensus clustering — Clustering is the assignment of objects into groups (called clusters) so that objects from the same cluster are more similar to each other than objects from different clusters. Often similarity is assessed according to a distance measure.… …
60Positive-definite matrix — In linear algebra, a positive definite matrix is a matrix that in many ways is analogous to a positive real number. The notion is closely related to a positive definite symmetric bilinear form (or a sesquilinear form in the complex case). The… …
