07 Jan 10
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Originally posted by wolfgang59M-theory
Good international M R W entries still required!
A-bomb
B-list
C-word
D-cup
F-plan
G-spot
H-bomb
I- pod
J- date
K-mart
L-plate
M-
N-dimensional
O-ring
P-wave
Q-tip
R
S-bend
T-junction
U-turn
V-neck
W
X-ray
Z-score
I suggest this replaces the boring NATO phonetic alphabet 😉
R-type
W-Bush
13 Jan 10
Originally posted by FabianFnasR-type is great and really should have been accepted by the community at large if it hasn't been already!
M-theory
R-type
W-Bush
and though it's relatively obscure, i still think M-audio is a solid answer. almost anyone who has done digital music has heard of it, and it's a multinational brand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-audio
... but i understand not letting that one past if the majority consensus is it's not strong enough. 🙂
13 Jan 10
Originally posted by coquettelol @ what is zee score man? haha ... for any interested, that answers.com definition isn't a fantastic description of what a z-score is. more accurately, it measures how many standard deviations a particular piece of data in a sample is away from the mean of that sample. in essence it is a standardized measurement of the "rarity" of a particular subject's score in relation to the normal distribution of all the scores of a population.
It's like, what is zee score man?
http://www.answers.com/topic/z-score
incidentally, i also am a math grad, but never had to take statistics so i had never heard of this term either until i recently helped tutor a math-challenged friend in stats!