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Table 1 Notational conventions for all but the appendices

From: Cumulative deviation of a subpopulation from the full population

Symbol

Meaning

Equation for the unweighted case

Equation for the case with weights

\(A_k\)

Abscissa for the cumulative graph in the case with weights

(Not applicable)

(28)

D

Kuiper statistic

(13)

(13)

\(\Delta _k\)

Expected slope of \(F_j - {\tilde{F}}_j\) from \(j = k-1\) to \(j = k\)

(10)

(29)

\(F_k\)

Cumulative response for the subpopulation

(5)

(25)

\({\tilde{F}}_k\)

Cumulative average response for the full population

(8)

(27)

G

Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic

(12)

(12)

\(i_k\)

Index of an individual from the subpopulation

(1)

(34)

\(P_k\)

Actual prob. of success for a Bernoulli trial in synthetic data

(Section "Synthetic")

(Section "Synthetic")

\(R_k\)

Response—(random) dependent variable, outcome, or result

(1)

(34)

\({\tilde{R}}_k\)

Response for the full population averaged to the subpopulation

(6)

(26)

\(S_k\)

Score—(non-random) independent variable

(3)

(36)

\(\sigma \)

Scale of random fluctuations over the full range of scores

(21) or (22)

(31) or (32)

\(V_{i_k}\)

Estimate of variance in responses for a narrow bin around \(S_{i_k}\)

(23)

(33)

\(W_k\)

Weight

(Not applicable)

(28)

\(X_k\)

Abscissa of the subpopulation for reliability diagrams

(3)

(36)

\({\tilde{X}}_k\)

Abscissa of the full population for reliability diagrams

(4)

(37)

\(Y_k\)

Ordinate of the subpopulation for reliability diagrams

(1)

(34)

\({\tilde{Y}}_k\)

Ordinate of the full population for reliability diagrams

(2)

(35)

  1. Table 2 summarizes the notation used in the appendices. The symbols in the tables are in alphabetical order