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PARAMETER SCALE [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
DEF

A parameter describing the height of a Weibull distribution.

CONT

... a population standard deviation is a scale parameter, whereas a population mean is not. Generally, parameters which are given by powers of scale parameters are also referred to as scale parameters; in this sense, a population variance would be considered a scale parameter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
CONT

Le paramètre de dispersion : la détermination de la valeur centrale ne suffit pas à caractériser une série statistique. Les diverses observations peuvent être plus ou moins groupées autour de la valeur centrale et il faut être capable d'exprimer, par un seul nombre, cette dispersion.

Spanish

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