ABSCISSA

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books on: Abscissa  - 866 results

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A Mathematician Explains
Book by Mayme I. Logsdon, Gilbert Ames Bliss; The University of Chicago Press, 1936
Subjects: Mathematics, Mathematics--History
...the graph is numerically equal to the abscissa but with opposite algebraic sign. This...quadrant, the ordinate is positive and the abscissa negative, while for the part of the...quadrant, the ordinate is negative and the abscissa positive; but for both quadrants the...
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Mathematics: A Cultural Approach
Book by Morris Kline; Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1962
Subjects: Mathematics
...denote by A , is a function of x , the abscissa of the point Q . We now propose to...farther to the position PQ. The abscissa of Q is, of course, somewhat larger than that of Q . Let us denote the abscissa of Q by x + h , so that the increase...
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The Mathematical Works of Bernard Bolzano
Book by Steve Russ; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Bolzano, Bernard--1781-1848
...line. 2. Therefore for all values of abscissa x which do not lie outside the limits...contains all points of the line from abscissa x = a up to a certain one which we shall...that which contains all points from the abscissa x up to the abscissa x + Ax. Moreover...
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Learning from Data: An Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
Book by Arthur M. Glenberg; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996
Subjects: Statistics
...frequency or relative frequency. 2. The abscissa x -axis is labeled with the levels of one of the factors. Traditionally, the abscissa is labeled with the levels of the factor...treatment; the location of the point on the abscissa indicates the level of one of the factors...
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Hydrogen Ion Concentration: Its Significance in the Biological Sciences and Methods for Its Determinations - Vol. 1
Book by Leonor Michaelis, William A. Perlzweig; Williams & Wilkins Company, 1926
Subjects: Biochemistry, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
...The projection of this point on the abscissa gives the negative logarithm of the dissociation...acid whose constant is k = 1 O 10- 7 . Abscissa-pH, ordinate- . The scale of the...O 5 with respect to the scale of the abscissa. At the point marked x = 1/2, and...
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journal articles on: Abscissa  - 180 results

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Plotting P(super K) Factorial or P(super N-K) Fractional Factorial Data
Journal article by Richard J. Beckman; The American Statistician, Vol. 50, 1996
Subjects: Analysis of variance--Technique, Graphic methods--Analysis, Statistics--Technique
...proposed plot. The tree is drawn as the abscissa of the plot with the branches of the tree pointing upward. The abscissa values, which are the locations of...levels. Using the tree structure as the abscissa separates the most heterogeneous observations...
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Variation in Scatterplot Displays
Journal article by Michael E. Doherty, Richard B. Anderson; Behavior Research Methods, Vol. 41, 2009
Subjects: Influence, Psychology, Scatter diagrams, Standardization, Studies
...a rectangle; (2) abscissa and ordinate only...intersection thereof; (3) abscissa and ordinate only...varied greatly. The abscissas ranged from 41 to 145...figure on the page. The abscissas ranged from 59 to 145...positive portion of the abscissa. Figure 1 shows that...
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Contrasting Total Least Squares with Ordi Nary Least Squares Part I: Basic Ideas and Results
Journal article by Stephen M. Scariano, William Barnett II; Mathematics and Computer Education, Vol. 37, 2003
Subjects: Calculus, Mathematical programming, Regression analysis
...relationship Y = mX + b actually exists between the abscissa and ordinate values, and (ii) the abscissa values can essentially be measured without...or "predicted" ordinate corresponding to abscissa x^sub i^, Gauss reasoned that, given...
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Is the Area Measure a Historical Anomaly?
Journal article by J. D. Balakrishnan, Justin A. MacDonald, Hamid S. Kohen; Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 57, 2003
Subjects: Psychology, Research, Statistical analysis, Statistical data
...Equation 1. These are The two values on the abscissa of the odds distribution are therefore .381...odds distribution are therefore .525 at the abscissa value .381, and .475 at the abscissa value .632. In other words, on 47.5...
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Empirical Tests of the Reliability of Phylogenetic Trees Constructed with Microsatellite DNA
Journal article by Naoko Takezaki, Masatoshi Nei; Genetics, Vol. 178, 2008
Subjects: Computer simulation, Data analysis, Efficiency, Expected values, Population, Sample size, Standard deviation, Trees
...for the same pair of populations in the abscissa by choosing 30 loci in the nonparametric...relation to the mean (dm)2 in the abscissa. The slope of the mean DS is the steepest...FST9 . When the mean (dm)2 in the abscissa is close to zero, the mean DS is smaller...
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magazine articles on: Abscissa  - 4 results

 
 
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Are Atheists More Depressed Than Religious People?
Magazine article by Franz Buggle, Dorothee Bister, Gisela Nohe, Wolfgang Schneider, Karl Uhmann; Free Inquiry, Vol. 20, Fall 2000
Subjects: Atheists--Psychology and mental health, Belief and doubt--Psychological aspects, Depression, Mental--Religious aspects, Psychology, Religious--Analysis
...coordinate system and take the inverse value for depression as the ordinate and the degree of (ir-)religiousness as the abscissa, we obtain an asymmetrical U-shaped curve. This means that fanatical Christians and militant atheists are least prone to...
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The Reality of Costs
Magazine article by Reginald Tomas Yu-Lee; Industrial Management, Vol. 42, July 2000
Subjects: Cost analysis, Decision making, Mathematical models, Product development, Production costs, Studies
...cost. In the past, total cost has been depicted by a curve in two-dimensional space, with the axes being units as the abscissa and total cost as the ordinate. As the number of activities, products, and resources increase, the number of dimensions...
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COMETS in the Classroom
Magazine article by Mike Rose; The Nation, Vol. 261, October 16, 1995
Subjects: African American students--Education, Chicago, Illinois, Education, Secondary--Personal narratives, Schools, Secondary education--Personal narratives
...still having a little trouble with the protractor. Hed never used one like this before and didnt quite see "where to put the abscissa"--how to locate the angle on the page amid the curves and lines and little holes of the plastic protractor. I plotted...
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Personal Gods, Deism, & the Limits of Skepticism
Magazine article by Massimo Pigliucci; Skeptic, Vol. 8, 2000
Subjects: Creationism, Evolution, Religion, Science
...therefore presented in FIGURE 1. Here the panoply of positions concerning the S R debate is arranged along two axes: on the abscissa we have the level of contrast between science and religion, which goes from none (same worlds model) to moderate (separate...


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newspaper articles on: Abscissa  - 3 results

 
 
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The Prize Crossword
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 27, 2011
...20 Azure, 21 Amla, 23 Breakfast At Tiffanys, 27 Gobi, 28 Chloe, 29 Habanera, 31 Angora, 33 Demob, 35 Nicely, 37 Abscissa, 38 La Rochelle, 39 Aside, 40 Aslan, 41 Bionics. DOWN: 2 Yucca, 3 Lentigo, 4 Pecksniff, 6 Comet, 7 Agincourt, 9...
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The Prize Crossword
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 21, 2011
...9 Adler, 10 O Sole Mio, 11 La Paz, 18 Carlo, 20 Tweed, 21 Rosencrantz, 23 Synge, 24 Omnivorous, 26 Carolina, 27 Abscissa, 31 Baird, 33 Krona, 34 Nevis, 35 Waite, 36 Paddy. Need help? Ask Fred - and get ahead! Use your mobile phone and get...
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Business and Society; Conversation with a Nobel Laureate
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 4, 2006
Subjects: Kahneman, Daniel
...almost always gains), whereas the utility functions that were supposed to explain the choices were drawn with wealth as the abscissa. This seemed unnatural, and psychologically unlikely. We immediately decided to adopt changes and/or differences as carriers...


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encyclopedia articles on: Abscissa  - 2 results

 
 
1.
Abscissa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABSCISSA see Cartesian coordinates . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Cartesian Coordinates
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and the y -axis vertical, so that the x -coordinate, or abscissa, of P is measured along the horizontal perpendicular from...In oblique coordinates the axes are not perpendicular; the abscissa of P is measured along a parallel to the x -axis, and the...


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