Etymology

vincentization

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Today it means: The technique of averaging three or more subjects' estimated or elicited quantile functions in order to define group quantiles from which F can be constructed. Full definition →

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From Vincent + -ization, after biologist S. B. Vincent (1912), who used a similar technique to construct learning curves.

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