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biweights

biweights is the plural of biweight.

Meaning of biweight

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

Questions about biweights

What is biweights the plural of?
Biweights is the plural of biweight.

Words near biweights in the dictionary

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

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