Wombling
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In statistics
, Wombling is any of a number of techniques used for identifying zones of rapid change
, typically in some quantity as it varies across some geographical or Euclidean space
. It is named for statistician William H. Womble.
The technique may be applied to gene frequency in a population of organisms, and to evolution of language
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Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
, Wombling is any of a number of techniques used for identifying zones of rapid change
Rate of change
Rate of change may refer to:* Derivative, rate of change in a mathematical function* Difference quotient, the difference between two output values divided by the difference between the corresponding input values...
, typically in some quantity as it varies across some geographical or Euclidean space
Euclidean space
In mathematics, Euclidean space is the Euclidean plane and three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to higher dimensions...
. It is named for statistician William H. Womble.
The technique may be applied to gene frequency in a population of organisms, and to evolution of language
Evolutionary linguistics
Evolutionary linguistics is the scientific study of the origins and development of language. The main challenge in this research is the lack of empirical data: spoken language leaves practically no traces. This led to an abandonment of the field for more than a century...
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