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Significant figures, also referred to as significant digits or sig figs, are specific digits within a number written in positional notation that carry...

The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point P {\displaystyle P} and a distribution D {\displaystyle D} , introduced by P. C....

In Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, the Vapnik–Chervonenkis (VC) dimension is a measure of the size (capacity, complexity, expressive power, richness, or flexibility)...

In mathematics, an inner regular measure is one for which the measure of a set can be approximated from within by compact subsets. Let (X, T) be a Hausdorff...

A secure telephone is a telephone that provides voice security in the form of end-to-end encryption for the telephone call, and in some cases also the...

In cryptography, concrete security or exact security is a practice-oriented approach that aims to give more precise estimates of the computational complexities...

An aircraft handler is a member of the Aircraft Handling branch in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces. Aircraft Handlers are responsible for the...

In mathematics and economics, a corner solution is a special solution to an agent's maximization problem in which the quantity of one of the arguments...

In gerontology, late-life mortality deceleration is the disputed theory that hazard rate increases at a decreasing rate in late life rather than increasing...

Statistical epidemiology is an emerging branch of the disciplines of epidemiology and biostatistics that aims to: Bring more statistical rigour to bear...

"A block reflector is an orthogonal, symmetric matrix that reverses a subspace whose dimension may be greater than one." It is built out of many elementary...

Cogitatio Press is a Portuguese open access publisher founded in 2014, hosting four scientific peer-reviewed journals, mostly dedicated to the social sciences...

This is a list of causal mapping software. Causal mapping software enables users to create and/or work with causal maps: qualitative networks of interconnected...

An enumerator is a Turing machine with an attached printer. The Turing machine can use that printer as an output device to print strings. Every time the...

A prior-free mechanism (PFM) is a mechanism in which the designer does not have any information on the agents' valuations, not even that they are random...

Late acceptance hill climbing, created by Yuri Bykov in 2008 is a metaheuristic search method employing local search methods used for mathematical optimization...

MacMahon Squares are an edge-matching puzzle first published by Percy MacMahon in 1921, using 24 unique squares with 3-color patterns; each of the four...