Sentences with phrase «numerical measure»
This process involves comparing several variables common to both files and generates a single numerical measure of how well two particular records match.
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Because many platforms have numerical measures of your popularity (friends, followers, connections, etc.), it's tempting to try and build your numbers up as quickly as possible.
«If you impose a simplistic numerical measure and lose sight of the other important goals of the institution,» says Koretz, «then the other goals get short shrift.»
Correlation is an appropriate numerical measure only for linear relationships, and is sensitive to outliers (values at the extremes).
During an interview in 1987, I asked him what he meant by that — in particular, I wondered if what he had in mind was some sort of numerical measure of meaning, similar to the math of information theory (which quantifies information in bits, typically represented by 0 and 1).
The relativity that Newton here rejected is not the relativity that Einstein propounded; and although the Special Theory of Relativity has shown Newton to be wrong in some respects, and in particular has shown that we should not think of time by itself in complete independence of everything external, time is related to space, and also to velocity, contrary to Newton's opinion, it has not shown that time is relative in Newton's sense, and merely some numerical measure of process.
Since relative rankings do have a permanent and necessary place in every social system, some numerical measures of school accomplishment may still be desirable.
First, they force the translation of quality into a numerical measure.
As a numerical measure, this can be evaluated in terms of the ratio of learner posts to a number of learners, or as a ratio of a number of posts for each learner.
Your credit score is the numerical measure of your consumer credit health, the number that lenders look at when determining how creditworthy you are, i.e. how likely you are to pay money back that you've borrowed.
«Number of miles» is another numerical measure that plays a significant part in the mall's success formula.