underlying distribution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunderlyinganddistribution
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underlying
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
real but not ...
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distribution
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
the process of giving things out to several people, or spreading or ...
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They consider a variety of problems in geometric probability where theunderlyingdistributionis intractable but the first few moments can be computed theoretically.
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As a first stage of this analysis the thresholds were estimated, and the correlations for the five gender-zygosity groups were estimated on theunderlyingdistribution.
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Using thisunderlyingdistributionwe derived two ordinal traits.
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Estimates of the magnitude of the underpricing are sensitive to the assumptions about theunderlyingdistributionof returns.
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However, without addressing theunderlyingdistributionof power, judiciaries will likely remain emasculated.
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We show that changes in theunderlyingdistributionof voters' preferences result in different electoral landscapes which can be characterized by a measure of ruggedness.
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Thresholds are modeled on a normal distribution of risk, and genetic and environmental influences on thisunderlyingdistributionare explored.
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First, as argued, voting rules could be endogenous on theunderlyingdistributionof member state preferences.
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No assumptions are made about theunderlyingdistributionof the data.
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In each case, mean simulated cohesion is highest for small groups and falls as group size increases, although theunderlyingdistributionfor individual behaviour remains unchanged.
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Chapter 8 covers non-parametric techniques for machine learning which are useful when we cannot make assumptions about theunderlyingdistribution, or come up with workable parametric models.
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However, theunderlyingdistributionof power tends to resist change and neutralise external interventions.
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The incomplete gamma functions are related to several cumulative distribution functions of probability theory, with theunderlyingdistributionbeing the gamma distribution.
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If one has knowledge of theunderlyingdistributionof the data, this may indicate using one of the other choices.
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The sampling distribution depends on theunderlyingdistributionof the population, the statistic being considered, the sampling procedure employed, and the sample size used.
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The form of the linear estimator does not depend on the type of the assumedunderlyingdistribution.
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This means that theunderlyingdistributioncan be given an operational interpretation as the limiting empirical distribution of the sequence of values.
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Measurements pertaining to multipole moments may be taken and used to infer properties of theunderlyingdistribution.
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We now describe the random variables and the underlying distributions involved in this alignment model.
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