parametric

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When they compare the results from parametric and semi-parametric event analyses, they find that the semi-parametric or the propensity score analysis generals moderately larger estimated effects of the law on housing prices.

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  1. Situated or occurring near the uterus.
  2. Pertaining to a parameter.
  3. Parametric distribution in mathematics See distribution.

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  • Drew Troyer says that manufacturing reliability professionals must get comfortable with the process of defining their world in probabilistic and non-parametric terms. —  Reliable Plant Magazine
  • Selecting variables in non-parametric regression models for binary response. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Statistical analyses were performed with the non-parametric Mann and Whitney test. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Bacterial and human genetic distance matrixes were generated and compared using non-parametric statistics. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • While the general concept is unchanged, the new edition features a broad array of new material, e.g. frequency doubling in external cavities, reliable cw-parametric oscillators, tunable narrow-band UV sources, more sensitive detection techniques, tunable femtosecond and sub-femtosecond lasers (X-ray region and the attosecond range), control of atomic and molecular excitations, frequency combs able to synchronize independent femtosecond lasers, coherent matter waves, and still more applications in chemical analysis, medical diagnostics, and engineering. —  AvaxHome RSS:
 

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  1. from Greek παρά, beside, + μήτρα, the uterus, + -ic.
  2. from parameter + -ic.
 

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