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  2. Limiting factor - Wikipedia

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    A limiting factor is a variable of a system that causes a noticeable change in output or another measure of a type of system. The limiting factor is in a pyramid shape of organisms going up from the producers to consumers and so on. A factor not limiting over a certain domain of starting conditions may yet be limiting over another domain of ...

  3. Density dependence - Wikipedia

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    Negative density-dependence, or density-dependent restriction, describes a situation in which population growth is curtailed by crowding, predators and competition. [citation needed] In cell biology, it describes the reduction in cell division. When a cell population reaches a certain density, the amount of required growth factors and nutrients ...

  4. Limiting density of discrete points - Wikipedia

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    Information theory. In information theory, the limiting density of discrete points is an adjustment to the formula of Claude Shannon for differential entropy . It was formulated by Edwin Thompson Jaynes to address defects in the initial definition of differential entropy.

  5. Liebig's law of the minimum - Wikipedia

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    Liebig's law of the minimum, often simply called Liebig's law or the law of the minimum, is a principle developed in agricultural science by Carl Sprengel (1840) and later popularized by Justus von Liebig. It states that growth is dictated not by total resources available, but by the scarcest resource ( limiting factor ).

  6. Central limit theorem - Wikipedia

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    Density functions. The density of the sum of two or more independent variables is the convolution of their densities (if these densities exist). Thus the central limit theorem can be interpreted as a statement about the properties of density functions under convolution: the convolution of a number of density functions tends to the normal ...

  7. Butler–Volmer equation - Wikipedia

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    The Butler–Volmer equation The upper graph shows the current density as function of the overpotential η . The anodic and cathodic current densities are shown as j a and j c, respectively for α=α a =α c =0.5 and j 0 =1mAcm −2 (close to values for platinum and palladium).

  8. Probability density function - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, a probability density function (PDF), density function, or density of an absolutely continuous random variable, is a function whose value at any given sample (or point) in the sample space (the set of possible values taken by the random variable) can be interpreted as providing a relative likelihood that the value of the random variable would be equal to that sample.

  9. Generalized extreme value distribution - Wikipedia

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    where is the lower incomplete gamma function and is the logarithmic integral function. [2] In probability theory and statistics, the generalized extreme value ( GEV) distribution [3] is a family of continuous probability distributions developed within extreme value theory to combine the Gumbel, Fréchet and Weibull families also known as type I ...