or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can be diverse groups...

that the level of measurement of a set of observations dictates which mathematical or statistical operations are permissible, statistical analyses themselves...

Measurement is the quantification of attributes of an object or event, which can be used to compare with other objects or events. In other words, measurement...

Coherence bandwidth is a statistical measurement of the range of frequencies over which the channel can be considered "flat", or in other words the approximate...

When used to predict an individual's health, rather than as a statistical measurement for groups, the BMI has limitations that can make it less useful...

Social statistics is the use of statistical measurement systems to study human behavior in a social environment. This can be accomplished through polling...

floods, landslides, or river discharge flows to occur. It is a statistical measurement typically based on historic data over an extended period, and is...

specialties have evolved to apply statistical and methods to various disciplines. Certain topics have "statistical" in their name but relate to manipulations...

reality in terms of statistical measures and as such is an epistemological and philosophical issue as well as a question of measurement. The use of the term...

metrology, measurement uncertainty is the expression of the statistical dispersion of the values attributed to a measured quantity. All measurements are subject...

A measurement system analysis (MSA) is a thorough assessment of a measurement process, and typically includes a specially designed experiment that seeks...

Broadly, retention rate is a statistical measurement of the number of people that remain involved with some kind of entity, such as a company or research...

both, or neither. In simpler terms, given a statistical sample or set of data points from repeated measurements of the same quantity, the sample or set can...

Urban Indians are American Indians and Canadian First Nations peoples who live in urban areas. Urban Indians represent a growing proportion of the Native...

many different ways. This broadened meaning is not related to the statistical measurement concept nor to the classical understanding of the concept in economic...

mechanics, the measurement problem is the problem of definite outcomes: quantum systems have superpositions but quantum measurements only give one definite...

nature violates the statistical conditions known as Bell inequalities indicates that the unpredictability of quantum measurement results cannot be explained...

measurement error) is the difference between a measured value of a quantity and its unknown true value. Such errors are inherent in the measurement process;...

Measurement invariance or measurement equivalence is a statistical property of measurement that indicates that the same construct is being measured across...

recuperation and healing. She also emphasised the importance of statistical measurement for determining the success rate of a given intervention and pushed...

Qualitative variation Measurement uncertainty Robust measures of scale Summary statistics NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods. "1.3.6.4. Location...

In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when a result at least as "extreme" would be very infrequent if the null hypothesis...

lensing mass. Weak gravitational lensing is thus an intrinsically statistical measurement, but it provides a way to measure the masses of astronomical objects...

mean), whereas a statistic is an estimated measurement of the parameter based on a sample (such as the sample mean). Thus a "statistical parameter" can...

great advantage of SEM is that all of these measurements and tests occur simultaneously in one statistical estimation procedure, where all the model coefficient...

used metaphorically to mean a measurement of the amount of difference between two similar objects (such as statistical distance between probability distributions...

Nowadays, the numerical value is instead obtained from measurement through the microscopic statistical mechanical international definition, as above. In thermodynamic...

repeated measurements are made on the same statistical units (longitudinal study), or where measurements are made on clusters of related statistical units...

An unusual unit of measurement is a unit of measurement that does not form part of a coherent system of measurement, especially because its exact quantity...

appropriate to apply different kinds of statistical methods to data obtained from different kinds of measurement procedures is complicated by issues concerning...