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maxent

maxent noun: maximum entropy.

Noun

maxent (uncountable)

  1. maximum entropy
    • Study results showed that maxent model can be highly robust (99.8%) in predicting the species relative abundance of macrophytes with observed community-weighted mean (CWM) traits as the constraints, while relative low (about 30%) with CWM traits fitted from water depth gradient as the constraints.2015 July 14, “Predicting Changes in Macrophyte Community Structure from Functional Traits in a Freshwater Lake: A Test of Maximum Entropy Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of maxent

Clipping.

Questions about maxent

What does maxent mean?
Maxent means maximum entropy.
What part of speech is maxent?
Maxent is a noun.

Words near maxent in the dictionary

  1. Maxcy
  2. Maxcys
  3. maxed
  4. maxed out
  5. maxed-out
  6. maxent
  7. Maxentia
  8. Maxentian
  9. Maxentius
  10. maxes
  11. maxes out

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