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  2. Return period - Wikipedia

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    A return period, also known as a recurrence interval or repeat interval, is an average time or an estimated average time between events such as earthquakes, floods, [1] landslides, [2] or river discharge flows to occur. It is a statistical measurement typically based on historic data over an extended period, and is used usually for risk ...

  3. Time-to-digital converter - Wikipedia

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    In electronics time-to-digital converters (TDCs) or time digitizers are devices commonly used to measure a time interval and convert it into digital (binary) output. In some cases [1] interpolating TDCs are also called time counters (TCs). TDCs are used to determine the time interval between two signal pulses (known as start and stop pulse).

  4. Orbital period - Wikipedia

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    The synodic period is the amount of time that it takes for an object to reappear at the same point in relation to two or more other objects. In common usage, these two objects are typically Earth and the Sun. The time between two successive oppositions or two successive conjunctions is also equal to the synodic period. For celestial bodies in ...

  5. Spacetime - Wikipedia

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    In physics, spacetime, also called the space-time continuum, is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. Spacetime diagrams are useful in visualizing and understanding relativistic effects, such as how different observers perceive where and when events ...

  6. Data binning - Wikipedia

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    Data binning, also called data discrete binning or data bucketing, is a data pre-processing technique used to reduce the effects of minor observation errors. The original data values which fall into a given small interval, a bin , are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often a central value ( mean or median ).

  7. Interval estimation - Wikipedia

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    Differentiating between two-sided and one-sided intervals on a standard normal distribution curve. Two-sided intervals estimate a parameter of interest, Θ, with a level of confidence, γ, using a lower and upper bound (). Examples may include estimating the average height of males in a geographic region or lengths of a particular desk made by ...

  8. Time series - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Examples of time series are heights of ocean tides, counts of sunspots, and the daily closing value of ...

  9. Likelihood function - Wikipedia

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    considered as a function of , is the likelihood function, given the outcome of the random variable . Sometimes the probability of "the value of for the parameter value " is written as P(X = x | θ) or P(X = x; θ). The likelihood is the probability that a particular outcome is observed when the true value of the parameter is , equivalent to the ...