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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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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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To Discover Mathematics
Book by Gaylord M. Merriman; John Wiley & Sons, 1942
Subjects: Mathematics
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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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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  - 109 results

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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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Economics, Lies, and Videotapes
Journal article by Myra Strober, Myra H. Strober, Allen Cook; Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 23, 1992
Subjects: Economics--Study And Teaching--United States
...Following that, Gwen drew two points on the abscissa (which we may call q f and q e...and demand, also plotted price on the abscissa and quantity on the ordinate. It was...on the or dinate and quantity on the abscissa, thus confusing generations of economics...
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Automated Name Placement with High Cartographic Quality: City Street Maps
Journal article by Francois Chirie; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 27, 2000
Subjects: Cartography--Automation, Maps--Automation
...representation of axes. Managing curvilinear abscissa provides such a parametric representation...discrete sets of points. The curvilinear abscissa is defined by its fundamental property...sub.1 , ..., P.sub.Q, the curvilinear abscissas S.sub.1, ..., S.sub.Q of these vertices...
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Human Processing of Two-Dimensional Graphics: Information-Volume Concepts and Effects in Graph-Task Fit Anchoring Frameworks
Journal article by Joseph K. Tan; International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 6, 1994
Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction--Periodicals
...physically attached to a point on the abscissa (or x-axis) with an x-value printed...because adding bars vertically along the abscissa tends only to proportionally reduce their readability and usability unless the abscissa is correspondingly enlarged (which is...
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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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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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