Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not centric; having no center.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not centered; without a center.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
centered ; without a center.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not centered or having no center
- adjective lacking a centromere
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also, mice have acentric chromosome fusions since all their chromosome are acentric or acentric fusions.
The Rise of Human Chromosome 2: Beyond the Deme - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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The charge of anthropocentricity is explicitly addressed by the mystery approach, which attempts to give aesthetic appreciation of nature an “acentric” basis (Godlovitch 1994).
Environmental Aesthetics Carlson, Allen 2008
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For GENERAL investigations, you need to check methodology impacts e.g. acentric PCA or even some new issue on the end product reconstruction.
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Even if they are right, that the acentric method did no damage in MBH98, they still need to (1) acknowledge that it is wrong as a method and (2) make the assessment of how much it changes things mathematically.
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So fine: (1) define what a bad apple is, (2) show that it is present in the data field and (3) show how acentric versus centric PCA changes the mining of that “bad apple”.
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What VZ showed was minimal construction of hockey stick by acentric PCA versus centered PCA with Echo-G inputs.
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I agree that the acentric method creates a PC1 that is more HS-shaped than otherwise.
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What is a mathematical description of the “type of object” that acentric PCA mines for?
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In the actual regression, how much impact numerically on HS index comes from this acentric method.
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The point is that acentric versus centric does not produce much of a difference with echo-G type input. you make the contention that it does with “hockey stick shaped” input.
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