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biproportional

biproportional adjective: providing two-way proportionality.

Adjective

biproportional (not comparable)

  1. Providing two-way proportionality.
    • Given a rectangular non-negative matrix X#95;0 and two positive marginals a and b, the algorithm generates a sequence of matrices (X#95;n) starting at X#95;0, supposed to converge to a biproportional fitting, that is, to a matrix Y whose marginals are a and b and of the form...2016, Jean Brossard, Christophe Leuridan, “Iterated proportional fitting procedure and infinite products of stochastic matrices”, in arXiv

Origin of biproportional

From bi- + proportional.

Words formed from biproportional

Questions about biproportional

What does biproportional mean?
Biproportional means providing two-way proportionality.
What part of speech is biproportional?
Biproportional is an adjective.

Words near biproportional in the dictionary

  1. biprong
  2. bipronged
  3. biprop
  4. bipropellant
  5. bipropellants
  6. biproportional
  7. biproportionally
  8. biprops
  9. bips
  10. bipterous
  11. bipulmonary

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