weighted sum

collocation in English

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weighted
uk
/ˈweɪ.tɪd/
us
/ˈweɪ.t̬ɪd/
prepared and arranged in a way that is likely to produce a particular effect, usually an advantage, rather than ...
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sum
noun
uk
/sʌm/
us
/sʌm/
an amount ...
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(Definition ofweightedandsumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofweighted sum

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Infection prevalence is aweightedsumof the number of infected multiplied by the corresponding marginal row probability.
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Table 3 displays a case in which voters differently weight each issue and vote by the higherweightedsum, and aggregation is by majority rule.
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First, theweightedsumof the input values of the nodes is calculated.
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Each processing element, called as neuron, has a single output and performs an activation function of theweightedsumof all its inputs.
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The total probability density is theweightedsumof these two distinct patterns.
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In this case, the value function might be, in our example, either utilitarian or egalitarian but is definitely not aweightedsumof these two.
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In the absence of these two extreme situations, fitness is aweightedsumof the performance penalty and the parsimony penalty.
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The alternative processes are then ranked according to the value of theweightedsumof the estimated metrics.
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The fitness function is usually aweightedsumof the original objective function minus some penalty for every constraint violation.
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Similarly, the dominance deviation of a marker genotype is theweightedsumof the dominance deviations of the genotypes at the trait locus.
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The model is linear; the output of any neuron is defined as aweightedsumof its inputs.
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Alternative technologies are ranked according to these merits by calculating theweightedsumof the estimated metrics.
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The firing of a node within the cortical sheet depended on theweightedsumof activity down its incoming links.
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So inclusive wealth is not simply the sum of individual wealths, but is aweightedsumof individual wealths.
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Taking this order into account, biodiversity enters into the utility function as aweightedsumof the value of all species.
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This is because inequality using income information for m periods can never exceed aweightedsumof the individual period values.
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