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The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points...

A random variable (also called random quantity, aleatory variable, or stochastic variable) is a mathematical formalization of a quantity or object which...

In economics and game theory, an all-pay auction is an auction in which every bidder must pay regardless of whether they win the prize, which is awarded...

In mathematics, the regula falsi, method of false position, or false position method is a very old method for solving an equation with one unknown; this...

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) used to rank cryptographic products or algorithms by a certification called product types. Product types were defined...

A physical unclonable function (sometimes also called physically-unclonable function, which refers to a weaker security metric than a physical unclonable...

In mathematical analysis, Wiener's tauberian theorem is any of several related results proved by Norbert Wiener in 1932. They provide a necessary and sufficient...

In various science/engineering applications, such as independent component analysis, image analysis, genetic analysis, speech recognition, manifold learning...

In multivariate quantitative genetics, a genetic correlation (denoted r g {\displaystyle r_{g}} or r a {\displaystyle r_{a}} ) is the proportion of variance...

Victor Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1989, and he...

In commutative algebra, the support of a module M over a commutative ring R is the set of all prime ideals p {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {p}}} of R such...

Database encryption can generally be defined as a process that uses an algorithm to transform data stored in a database into "cipher text" that is incomprehensible...

Pham Huu Tiep (Vietnamese: Phạm Hữu Tiệp) is a Vietnamese American mathematician specializing in group theory and representation theory. He is currently...