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  2. 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)

  3. 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 ...

  4. Independence of irrelevant alternatives - Wikipedia

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    Arguments have been made that IIA is itself an undesirable and/or unrealistic criteria. IIA is largely incompatible with the majority criterion unless there are only two alternatives and the vast majority of voting systems fail the criteria. The satisfaction of IIA by Approval and Range voting rests on making an unrealistic assumption that ...

  5. Voting criteria - Wikipedia

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    Woodall's plurality criterion is a voting criterion for ranked voting. It is stated as follows: [ 66 ] [ 67 ] If the number of ballots ranking A as the first preference is greater than the number of ballots on which another candidate B is given any preference [other than last], then A's probability of winning must be no less than B's.

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Independence of clones criterion - Wikipedia

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    In social choice theory, the independence of (irrelevant) clones criterion says that adding a clone, i.e. a new candidate very similar to an already-existing candidate, should not spoil the results. [1] It can be considered a weak form of the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) criterion that nevertheless is failed by a number of ...