• An unobservable (also called impalpable) is an entity whose existence, nature, properties, qualities or relations are not directly observable by humans...
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    Logistic map), in which case the map is said to have unobservable nonperiodicity: p. 18  or unobservable chaos. He and his colleagues (Edward Ott and Celso...
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    In quantum physics, a virtual state is a very short-lived, unobservable quantum state. In many quantum processes a virtual state is an intermediate state...
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    estimate, based on observed data, of an unobservable underlying probability density function. The unobservable density function is thought of as the density...
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  • that the universe described by science (including both observable and unobservable aspects) exists independently of our perceptions, and that verified scientific...
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  • context, it is usually understood as what is observable, in contrast to unobservable or theoretical objects. It is generally accepted that unaided perception...
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  • expected value, being the mean of the entire population, is typically unobservable, and hence the statistical error cannot be observed either. A residual...
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    reality is fundamentally immaterial (e.g., idealism), whether hypothetical unobservable entities posited by scientific theories exist (e.g., scientific realism)...
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  • in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science. This break...
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  • make), if two processes never interact, the lack of synchronization is unobservable and in these applications it is enough for the processes to agree on...
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  • not be certain about the situation they are in (it is "unknown" or "unobservable") and it may not know for certain what will happen after each possible...
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  • {O}}_{v}={\begin{bmatrix}C\\CA\\CA^{2}\\\vdots \\CA^{v-1}\end{bmatrix}}.} The unobservable subspace N {\displaystyle N} of the linear system is the kernel of the...
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  • frequentist confidence interval or Bayesian credible interval bears to an unobservable population parameter: prediction intervals predict the distribution of...
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  • simplest instance a WTA market where the differences between players are unobservable and therefore the probability of each player winning is perceived as...
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  • universe. It represents the boundary between the observable and the unobservable regions of the universe, so its distance at the present epoch defines...
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  • scientific theory reveals nothing known either true or false about nature's unobservable objects, properties or processes. Scientific theory is merely a tool...
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  • thus becomes the criterion by which to judge the reality of (typically unobservable) scientific entities. As Ian Hacking, the main proponent of this formulation...
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  • predictive function g ^ {\displaystyle {\widehat {g}}} and the values of the (unobservable) true value g. It is an inverse measure of the explanatory power of g...
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    of light rays that are refracted by a moving fluid, allowing normally unobservable changes in a fluid's refractive index to be seen. Because changes to...
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  • on 25 May 2008. Pfitzmann, A., and M. Köhntopp (2000). "Anonymity, Unobservability, and Pseudonymity: A Proposal for Terminology Archived 9 July 2011...
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  • terrestrial horizon, it represents the boundary between the observable and the unobservable regions of the universe, so its distance at the present epoch defines...
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    Introduction, he held that conventional statistical inference about unobservable population parameters amounts to inference about things that do not exist...
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    theoretical and mathematical physics and the first mechanistic account of an unobservable physical phenomenon. Huygens worked on the mathematics of light rays...
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     3–6 E. Agazzi; M. Pauri (2013). The Reality of the Unobservable: Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism....
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    recorders, and also translate into perceptible form events that are unobservable by the senses, such as indicator dyes, voltmeters, spectrometers, infrared...
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  • within the domain of visible and evident things, it tries not to invoke unobservables. The Dogmatic school of ancient Greek medicine employed analogismos...
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  • of i.i.d. random variables. That is, there are underlying, generally unobservable, quantities that are i.i.d. – exchangeable sequences are mixtures of...
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    Liljequist parhelia, the 90° parhelia (likely unobservable), the second order 90° parhelia (unobservable), the 22° parhelia and more. Artificial parhelic...
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  • of a one-dimensional anharmonic oscillator, avoiding the concrete but unobservable representations of electron orbits by using observable parameters such...
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  • that is not in itself directly relevant, but that serves in place of an unobservable or immeasurable variable. In order for a variable to be a good proxy...
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