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assortativeness

assortativeness noun: the quality or degree of being assortative.

Noun

assortativeness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or degree of being assortative.
    • Accordingly, we varied HIV transmission probability per coital act, duration of each HIV stage, frequency of coital acts per HIV stage, duration of partnership, degree of assortativeness, scale parameter in the gamma distribution of the population across the risk groups, and exponent parameter in...2015 December 31, “Investigating Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program Efficiency Gains through Subpopulation Prioritization: Insights from Application to Zambia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of assortativeness

From assortative + -ness.

Words formed from assortativeness

Questions about assortativeness

What does assortativeness mean?
Assortativeness means the quality or degree of being assortative.
What part of speech is assortativeness?
Assortativeness is a noun.

Words near assortativeness in the dictionary

  1. assortative mating
  2. assortative matings
  3. assortative pairing
  4. assortative pairings
  5. assortatively
  6. assortativeness
  7. assortativities
  8. assortativity
  9. assorted
  10. assortedly
  11. assortedness

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