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Concours général. In France, the Concours Général, created in 1747, is the most prestigious academic competition held every year between students of Première (11th grade) and Terminale (12th and final grade) in almost all subjects taught in both general, technological and professional high schools. Exams usually take place in March, and ...
In France, the agrégation ( French pronunciation: [aɡʁeɡasjɔ̃]) is the most competitive and prestigious examination for civil service in the French public education system. Successful candidates become professeurs agrégés and are usually appointed as teachers in secondary schools or preparatory classes, or as lecturers in universities.
On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground.
Concours Complet International. The Concours Complet International ( CCI) is the competition rating for the equestrian sport of eventing, given by the international governing body for the sport, the FEI. The rating system was recently changed, effective 1 January 2019. Originally, competitions were held in two formats, CCI and CIC ( Concours ...
The Concours des villes et villages fleuris originates in the various horticultural contests that appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. As tourism was growing, competitions were created for train stations and hotels for them to improve their visual quality. The French Touring Club created the first competition dedicated to villages ...
Sheppard's correction. In statistics, Sheppard's corrections are approximate corrections to estimates of moments computed from binned data. The concept is named after William Fleetwood Sheppard . Let be the measured kth moment, the corresponding corrected moment, and the breadth of the class interval (i.e., the bin width).
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William B. Gordon joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 163.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
The Bonferroni correction compensates for that increase by testing each individual hypothesis at a significance level of , where is the desired overall alpha level and is the number of hypotheses. [4] For example, if a trial is testing hypotheses with a desired overall , then the Bonferroni correction would test each individual hypothesis at .