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Discrimination (information)

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This article is about the act of distinguishing one thing from another. For the prejudicial treatment, see Discrimination. Act of distinguishing one thing from another

Discrimination in the original and broadest sense is the act of distinguishing one thing from another.

Business and engineering

  • Discrimination testing is a technique employed in sensory analysis to determine whether there is a detectable difference among two or more products.
  • Markovian discrimination is a method used in spam filters to model the statistical behaviors of spam and nonspam.
  • Net bias (also called data discrimination) is the differentiation of price or quality of Internet data transmission.
  • Price discrimination, or price differentiation, is a pricing strategy where identical or similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider to different customers.
  • Selectivity (circuit breakers) (also known as circuit breaker discrimination) is the coordination of overcurrent protection devices so that a fault in the installation is cleared by the protection device located immediately upstream of the fault.
  • Term discrimination is a way to rank keywords in how useful they are for information retrieval.
  • Word sense discrimination is the automatic identification of the senses of a word.

Biology and psychology

Other uses

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