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  • verb Present participle of decentre.

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Examples

  • Surely Occam’s razor should tell us that the idea of decentring and then trying to fiddle the weights to be “better” over and above just plain centring should be deposited firmly in the cylindrical filing cabinet.

    Decoding Juckes SI Figure 1 « Climate Audit 2006

  • It is this fusion of a surrender to the claims of an independent truth and a surrender to the actual risks and uncertainties of asserting this truth in word and action that makes the entire enterprise of spiritual – and specifically Christian – life one that is marked by the decentring and critique of the unexamined self.

    Canonical Writers 2008

  • It is this fusion of a surrender to the claims of an independent truth and a surrender to the actual risks and uncertainties of asserting this truth in word and action that makes the entire enterprise of spiritual – and specifically Christian – life one that is marked by the decentring and critique of the unexamined self.

    The Archbishop's Dostoevsky - TLS 2008

  • Mann has sought to conflate the stepwise issue with the decentring issue and the bristlecones.

    New Scientist on the Hockey Stick « Climate Audit 2006

  • I parsed through that and found the decentring problem, which explained the divergent results.

    New Scientist on the Hockey Stick « Climate Audit 2006

  • The latest line at realclimate is that they acknowledged “way back when” that decentring affects the first PC, and this is not news; but it makes no difference to the final reconstruction.

    Grapevine: Mann to testify on 27th July « Climate Audit 2006

  • Presumably, the greater the “decentring” effect on a series, the larger the RMS value should be, so using the RMS will reduce the weight of the series most affected by the decentring routine.

    Decoding Juckes SI Figure 1 « Climate Audit 2006

  • The decentring process is applied, in which the 10% are offset with a large mean error.

    A Red Noise Spaghetti Diagram « Climate Audit 2005

  • The offset introduced in the decentring process is integrated into the first principle component.

    Lost Cedars #2 « Climate Audit 2005

  • The offset introduced in the decentring process is integrated into the first principle component.

    Lost Cedars #2 « Climate Audit 2005

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