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  2. Pivotal quantity - Wikipedia

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    Then is called a pivotal quantity (or simply a pivot). Pivotal quantities are commonly used for normalization to allow data from different data sets to be compared. It is relatively easy to construct pivots for location and scale parameters: for the former we form differences so that location cancels, for the latter ratios so that scale cancels.

  3. Ancillary statistic - Wikipedia

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    A ancillary statistic is a specific case of a pivotal quantity that is computed only from the data and not from the parameters. They can be used to construct prediction intervals . They are also used in connection with Basu's theorem to prove independence between statistics.

  4. Student's t-distribution - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... the t statistic is a useful "pivotal quantity" in the case when the ... threshold is calculated by this ...

  5. Data conversion - Wikipedia

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    Data conversion is the conversion of computer data from one format to another. Throughout a computer environment, data is encoded in a variety of ways. For example, computer hardware is built on the basis of certain standards, which requires that data contains, for example, parity bit checks.

  6. Simplex algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The simplex method is remarkably efficient in practice and was a great improvement over earlier methods such as Fourier–Motzkin elimination. However, in 1972, Klee and Minty [ 32 ] gave an example, the Klee–Minty cube , showing that the worst-case complexity of simplex method as formulated by Dantzig is exponential time .

  7. Dynamic lot-size model - Wikipedia

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    The dynamic lot-size model in inventory theory, is a generalization of the economic order quantity model that takes into account that demand for the product varies over time. The model was introduced by Harvey M. Wagner and Thomson M. Whitin in 1958.

  8. Exponential distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, the exponential distribution or negative exponential distribution is the probability distribution of the distance between events in a Poisson point process, i.e., a process in which events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate; the distance parameter could be any meaningful mono-dimensional measure of the process, such as time ...

  9. Particle swarm optimization - Wikipedia

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    A particle swarm searching for the global minimum of a function. In computational science, particle swarm optimization (PSO) [1] is a computational method that optimizes a problem by iteratively trying to improve a candidate solution with regard to a given measure of quality.