Phrase Hound found 18 phrases and 8 compound words that contain criterion. The most common are listed below. Open criterion in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 18
- Conway criterionA rule for determining whether a prototile will tile the plane.
- Kaldor-Hicks criterionThe criterion of being Kaldor-Hicks efficient.
- Akaike information criterionAn estimator of prediction error and thereby relative quality of statistical models for a given data set, founded on the principles of information theory.
- Euler's criterionA theorem which states that, given a positive integer a which is coprime to an odd prime number p, a is a quadratic residue of p if and only if a^((p-1)/2) is congruent to 1 modulo p.
- Li's criterionA particular statement about the positivity of a certain sequence that is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis.
- Sylvester's criterionA necessary and sufficient criterion to determine whether a Hermitian matrix is positive-definite: specifically, when all of the leading principal minors have a positive determinant.
- criterion of verificationSynonym of verifiability principle: The principle, especially in 20th-century empiricism, that a statement has meaning if, and only if, either it can be verified by means of empirical observations or it is logically true by definition.
- Hill criterionsingular of Hill criteria.
- Kelly criterionA formula used to determine the optimal size of a series of bets in order to maximize the logarithm of wealth.
- Lawson criterionA necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the achievement of sustained release of energy from a nuclear fusion reactor; that the heating effect of the reaction should exceed the losses.
- criterion of embarrassmentAn academic criterion of historical authenticity, by which an account is deemed likely to be true under the inference that the author would have no reason to invent a historical account which might embarrass them.
- verification criterionSynonym of verifiability principle: The principle, especially in 20th-century empiricism, that a statement has meaning if, and only if, either it can be verified by means of empirical observations or it is logically true by definition.
- Sparrow criterionA resolution limit used to determine the moment when two point sources of equal intensity can be considered resolved.
- Bradford Hill criterionsingular of Bradford Hill criteria.
- Lawson comfort criterionA criterion used by urban planners and architects to assess how comfortable the wind around buildings is for pedestrians.
- verifiability criterionSynonym of verifiability principle: The principle, especially in 20th-century empiricism, that a statement has meaning if, and only if, either it can be verified by means of empirical observations or it is logically true by definition.
- criterion of verifiabilitySynonym of verifiability principle: The principle, especially in 20th-century empiricism, that a statement has meaning if, and only if, either it can be verified by means of empirical observations or it is logically true by definition.
- Feighner criterionAny of a set of influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
Compound words 8
- criteriologyThe study of the validity of reasoning and the criteria necessary to achieve knowledge.
- metacriterionA criterion used to choose between other criteria.
- bicriterionEither of a pair of related criteria
- criterionlessWithout criteria or the use of criteria; undiscerning, arbitrary.
- multicriterionHaving multiple criteria
- noncriterionThat which is not a (relevant) criterion.
- subcriterionA secondary or subsidiary criterion.
- tricriterionAny of three criteria in the same system