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beta: a mathematical measure of the sensitivity of rates of return on a portfolio or a given stock compared with rates of return on the market as a whole. See capital asset pricing model
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

beta: the probability that a statistical test will generate a false-negative error: failing to assert a defined pattern of deviation from a null pattern in circumstances where the defined pattern exists
Category: Statistics

beta-amylase: enzyme obtained from vegetable materials, such as malted barley, wheat and soya beans
Category: Chemistry

beta-binomial: a discrete probability distribution; it is the convoluted distribution obtained by averaging the probability parameter of a binomial distribution with index n over a beta distribution with parameters alpha and beta
Category: Statistics

beta-gamma: an emitter whereby the beta disintegration is accompanied by the emission of gamma rays
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

beta-gamma: a bivariate distribution obtained by Mc Kay(1934)in which X1 has a gamma distribution and the conditional distribution of X2 given X1 is a beta distribution with range(O,x1)
Category: Statistics

beta-gamma: complex of beta and gamma chains which is important in cellular signalling
Category: Medicine

beta-prime: a name sometimes regrettably given to the distribution of the transformed variable T=X/ (1-X) where X takes the standard form of the beta distribution; it is in fact a standard form of the Pearson type VI distribution
Category: Statistics

betatron: an electron accelerator in which the magnetic fields normal to the circular orbit of the electrons and within that orbit increase with time; the field at the orbit maintains a stable orbit while the changing magnetic field inside the orbit accelerates the electrons in the orbit
Category: Physics

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