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biweight

biweight noun: any of various weighted means.

Noun

biweight (plural biweights)

  1. Any of various weighted means
    • We began by mapping peptides to all possible proteins, and we then took the weighted mean (also known as Tukey’s biweight; implemented in the R Bioconductor package “affy”) to obtain a protein intensity that is more robust than the summation of intensities [36 –38 ].2015 November 6, “A Pilot Proteogenomic Study with Data Integration Identifies MCT1 and GLUT1 as Prognostic Markers in Lung Adenocarcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of biweight

pluralbiweights

Origin of biweight

From bi- + weight.

Words formed from biweight

  • Tukey's biweight

Questions about biweight

What does biweight mean?
Biweight means any of various weighted means.
What part of speech is biweight?
Biweight is a noun.
What is the plural of biweight?
The plural of biweight is biweights.

Words near biweight in the dictionary

  1. biwas
  2. biwavelet
  3. biwavelets
  4. biweeklies
  5. biweekly
  6. biweight
  7. biweights
  8. biwired
  9. biwiring
  10. BIWs
  11. bix

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