Sentences with phrase «mean absolute difference»

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In other words, what he means to say is that to differ in principle is to differ in degree, because it is not an absolute difference, but it is not to differ «merely in degree,» because it is an infinite rather than a merely finite difference.

This means that all phenomena are identical in their constituent self - identity; all are in a state of constant transformation; and there are no absolute differences between human nature and the natural order, body and mind, male and female, enlightenment and ignorance.

This means, among other things, that even the difference between human creatures such as ourselves and other creatures not similarly capable of self - understanding and moral action is at most a relative, not an absolute, difference.

(It's the absolute difference in means that matters in a power calculation, not the relative difference)

We also estimated relative indices of inequality (RII) and slope indices of inequality (SII) as summary measures of relative and absolute inequalities of breastfeeding outcomes, respectively, across the entire distribution of maternal education.24 For child IQ, linear regression analyses using GEEs were performed to estimate mean IQ differences in lower maternal education from the reference category in each intervention group and compared between the groups.

This 1.1 point absolute difference, expressed in purely relative terms, means that, nationally, the charter school suspension rate was 16 % higher than the non-charter school suspension rate.

So even though I probably didn't pass on an absolute scale, that was enough to mean the difference between success and failure.

«For hundreds of thousands of people the fate of the company meant the difference between the chance of real security for once in their lives and absolute financial disaster.

Not only the methodologies changed, but also what is measured: tide gauges measure local height differences between earth and see, while satellites measure an absolute mean see level.

area - weighted statistics: bias, pattern correlation, variance, centered root - mean - square difference, and mean absolute error

This would mean that in the Minnett experiment, the absolute SST would drop but the relative temperatures between the SST and the 5 cm depth may well increase for a time because the amount radiated by the ocean must decrease (due to the increased DLR making up the difference) and so convection will tend to increase the 5 cm warmth.

The pocket of Indian President is bigger than that of US President Meaning that the Indian President can keep a bill pending for infinite time then what is the difference between absolute veto, where...

While not a huge difference in absolute terms, it's a major relative difference that means the OnePlus 5's main camera is much worse at gathering light.