truncation selection
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftruncationandselection
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truncation
noun[U]
uk/trʌŋˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/trʌŋˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of making something shorter or quicker, especially by removing the end ...
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selection
noun
uk/sɪˈlek.ʃən/us/səˈlek.ʃən/
the act of choosing someone ...
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An empirical route was followed through the use of stochastic simulations and comparisons with traditionaltruncationselection.
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Repeated cycles of directional andtruncationselectionare practised.
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These procedures are more efficient than standardtruncationselection.
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When the effective size is considered, the predictions are good, suggesting that the effect of the deviations from normality is small undertruncationselection.
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A suitable fitness function, drawn over the number of trimer repeats, may be of the synergistic epistatic ortruncationselectiontype.
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In order to avoid this reduction of long-term gain, multi-generation optimization oftruncationselectionschemes is needed.
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We shall now considertruncationselectionin which individuals with the largest phenotypic values are selected.
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Withtruncationselectionacross genotypes, differences between truncation points for the three genotypes are equal to differences between means of the distributions.
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By contrast, undertruncationselection, there was no clear distinction between selective advantages in their relationship with contributions.
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Yet the optimal allocation of weights is based on deterministic predictions for the gain with standardtruncationselection.
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Undertruncationselection, the distribution of the genetic variance along the chromosome can be computed by numerical integration of (4).
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However, this is not the case for the frequency distributions of a^sel, for which, even undertruncationselection, some overlapping can occur between selected and unselected candidates.
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Additionally, at selection time, the probability that a selected candidate had an equal or greater a^sel than an unselected candidate was greater with quadratic optimization than undertruncationselection.
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Hill (2002) studied the effect oftruncationselectionon phenotype on changes of mean and phenotypic variance.
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Taking the best half, third or another proportion of the individuals istruncationselection.
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Truncationselectionis less sophisticated than many other selection methods, and is not often used in practice.
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Contrast this with a less sophisticated selection algorithm, such astruncationselection, which will eliminate a fixed percentage of the weakest candidates.
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