ABSCISSA

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books on: Abscissa  - 839 results

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Chaos Theory Tamed
Book by Garnett P. Williams; Taylor & Francis, 1997
Subjects: Chaotic Behavior In Systems
...versus time (on the horizontal axis, or abscissa). Right now were going to look at the...labeling schemes for the ordinate and abscissa, respectively, are: output x...easy (Fig. 3.4). The first point has an abscissa value of the input x ( xt ) and an...
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Practical Analysis: Graphical and Numerical Methods
Book by Friedrich. A. Willers, Robert T. Beyer; Dover Publications, 1948
Subjects: Approximation Theory, Numerical Analysis
...upper limits for the units along the abscissa and ordinate are 1 . Of course...above, we do not need to consider the abscissa values, since only integers are involved...parallel scales . In this case, the abscissas of all the points on each scale must...
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To Discover Mathematics
Book by Gaylord M. Merriman; John Wiley & Sons, 1942
Subjects: Mathematics
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The Wave Theory of Difference and Similarity
Book by Stephen W. Link; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992
Subjects: Difference (Psychology), Psychophysics, Similarity Judgment, Wave-Motion, Theory Of
...It is illustrated in Fig. 1.1 where the abscissa represents heaviness. On the abscissa are the true heaviness values, a and...equally to the judgment of either stimulus. The abscissa is scaled in standard deviation units. Thus...
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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
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journal articles on: Abscissa  - 176 results

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Guidelines for Graphing Data with Microsoft® Powerpoint(Tm)
Journal article by Erin E. Barton, Brian Reichow, Mark Wolery; Journal of Early Intervention, Vol. 29, 2007
...are the numbers to be displayed on the abscissa (x-axis), which represent the passage...Set up the data sheet labels for the abscissa and dependent measures as described above...Set up the data sheet labels for the abscissa and dependent measures as described above...
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Isoperformance Curves in Applied Psychology
Journal article by Marshall B. Jones, Robert S. Kennedy; Human Factors, Vol. 38, 1996
Subjects: Performance--Measurement, Psychology, Applied--Research
...independent variable is presented on the abscissa and the effect or dependent variable...constant effect. In such a case both abscissa and ordinate are determinants. The plotted...example, the scotopic luminosity curve. The abscissa is wavelength in micrometer and the ordinate...
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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
...statistical indexes, is 37 mm square, with the abscissa and ordinate shown. The top and right...resulting virtual square are not shown. The abscissa and ordinate are labeled. The data points...by manipulations of the scale on the abscissa and/or ordinate (Bobko Karren, 1979...
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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% of the...
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magazine articles on: Abscissa  - 2 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
...into a 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 dep...
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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 one angle...


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newspaper articles on: Abscissa  - 1 result

 
 
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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

 
 
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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
...horizontal 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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