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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 3

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    I disagree. "Criteria" is a plural noun, which does not agree with the singular verb "is". If there is 1 criterion, it would be "What is the criterion for that writhing project?" If there are more than 1, it would be "What are the criteria for that writhing project?". (and did you really mean writhing, or writing?)

  3. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Grammar and ...

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    (criteria are [plural], criterion is [singular]) (criteria were [plural]) The next three should only be attempted by a competent physicist: (Brief explanation: current = flow of charge; thus "flow of current" = flow of flow of charge) (current, flow) (current) (current)

  4. Independence (probability theory) - Wikipedia

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    Independence is a fundamental notion in probability theory, as in statistics and the theory of stochastic processes.Two events are independent, statistically independent, or stochastically independent [1] if, informally speaking, the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of occurrence of the other or, equivalently, does not affect the odds.

  5. Dependent and independent variables - Wikipedia

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    Here the independent variable is the dose and the dependent variable is the frequency/intensity of symptoms. Effect of temperature on pigmentation: In measuring the amount of color removed from beetroot samples at different temperatures, temperature is the independent variable and amount of pigment removed is the dependent variable.

  6. Talk:Criterion - Wikipedia

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    1 Criteria is the plural form of criterion. 2 comments. 2 Is this actually a disambiguation page?! 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: Criterion. Add ...

  7. Mutual information - Wikipedia

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    Mutual information has been used as a criterion for feature selection and feature transformations in machine learning. It can be used to characterize both the relevance and redundancy of variables, such as the minimum redundancy feature selection. Mutual information is used in determining the similarity of two different clusterings of a dataset.

  8. Criterion - Wikipedia

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    Criteria air contaminants, air pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards; Criterion validity, in psychometrics, a measure of how well one variable or set of variables predicts an outcome; Criterion-referenced test, translates a test score into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person

  9. Validity (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Criterion validity evidence involves the correlation between the test and a criterion variable (or variables) taken as representative of the construct. In other words, it compares the test with other measures or outcomes (the criteria) already held to be valid.