<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>Glossary</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2013-03-08 10:17:28</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2007-05-21 11:15:14</date><authorinitials>IanNimmoSmith</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2006-07-11 17:26:51</date><authorinitials>pc0102.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2006-07-11 17:26:27</date><authorinitials>pc0102.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2006-07-11 17:18:54</date><authorinitials>pc0102.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2006-07-11 16:54:22</date><authorinitials>pc0102.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2006-07-11 14:58:09</date><authorinitials>pc0102.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2006-07-02 22:39:11</date><authorinitials>cmbg-cache-2.server.ntli.net</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2006-07-01 23:49:46</date><authorinitials>cmbg-cache-2.server.ntli.net</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2006-06-30 22:56:58</date><authorinitials>Scripting Subsystem</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2006-06-30 22:55:27</date><authorinitials>Scripting Subsystem</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2006-06-30 21:37:51</date><authorinitials>Scripting Subsystem</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Selective Statistical and Mathematical Glossary</title><glosslist><glossentry><glossterm>Barycentric Coordinates</glossterm><glossdef><para><anchor id="Brinley"/> </para></glossdef></glossentry><glossentry><glossterm>Brinley Plots</glossterm><glossdef><para>Quantile-quantile plots, usually empirically obtained from data from two samples of the same size from a younger and an older population of subjects. The data in each group is ordered and the <emphasis>r</emphasis>th smallest value in <emphasis>Sample<subscript>1</subscript></emphasis> is plotted against the <emphasis>r</emphasis>th smallest value in <emphasis>Sample<subscript>2</subscript></emphasis>. <emphasis>Additive</emphasis> and <emphasis>Multiplicative</emphasis> relationships can be read from the slope and/or intercept of these plots. </para></glossdef></glossentry><glossentry><glossterm>Hartley Entropy</glossterm><glossdef><para>For a probability distribution on a finite set of events this is the logarithm of the number events with positive probability.  </para></glossdef></glossentry><glossentry><glossterm>Part correlation</glossterm></glossentry><glossentry><glossterm>Partial correlation</glossterm></glossentry><glossentry><glossterm>Partial residuals</glossterm><glossdef><para><anchor id="ROC"/> </para></glossdef></glossentry><glossentry><glossterm>ROC or Receiver Operating Characteristic</glossterm><glossdef><para>This is a term derived from <ulink url="https://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/Glossary/statswiki/SignalDetectionTheory#">SignalDetectionTheory</ulink> and relates the trade-off between Hits (or Correct Positives) and False Alarms (or False Positives) when using a decision criterion based on the value of a measure.  </para></glossdef></glossentry><glossentry><glossterm>Triangular Coordinates</glossterm></glossentry></glosslist><!--rule (<hr>) is not applicable to DocBook--><para><ulink url="https://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/Glossary/statswiki/CbuStatistics#">Return to Statistics main page</ulink> </para><para><ulink url="http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/">Return to CBU main page</ulink> </para><para>These pages are maintained by <ulink url="mailto:ian.nimmo-smith@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk">Ian Nimmo-Smith</ulink> and <ulink url="mailto:peter.watson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk">Peter Watson</ulink> </para><para><!--"~-smaller-~" is not applicable to DocBook-->[Last updated on 20 October, 2005] </para></section></article>