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  2. Field goal percentage - Wikipedia

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    Field goal percentage in basketball is the ratio of field goals made to field goals attempted. Its abbreviation is FG%. Although three-point field goal percentage is often calculated separately, three-point field goals are included in the general field goal percentage. Instead of using scales of 0 to 100%, the scale .000 to 1.000 is commonly used.

  3. Pythagorean expectation - Wikipedia

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    Pythagorean expectation. Pythagorean expectation is a sports analytics formula devised by Bill James to estimate the percentage of games a baseball team "should" have won based on the number of runs they scored and allowed. Comparing a team's actual and Pythagorean winning percentage can be used to make predictions and evaluate which teams are ...

  4. Contract bridge probabilities - Wikipedia

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    Suppose East is known to have 7 spades from the bidding and after seeing dummy you deduce West to hold 2 spades; then if your two lines of play are to hope either for diamonds 5-3 or clubs 4-2, the a priori probabilities are 47% and 48% respectively but and so now the club line is significantly better than the diamond line.

  5. Debt-to-GDP ratio - Wikipedia

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    According to the IMF World Economic Outlook Database (April 2021), [16] the level of Gross Government debt-to-GDP ratio in Canada was 116.3%, in China 66.8%, in India 89.6%, in Germany 70.3%, in France 115.2% and in the United States 132.8%. Two-thirds of US public debt is owned by US citizens, banks, corporations, and the Federal Reserve Bank ...

  6. Mole fraction - Wikipedia

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    mole fraction. In chemistry, the mole fraction or molar fraction, also called mole proportion or molar proportion, is a quantity defined as the ratio between the amount of a constituent substance, ni (expressed in unit of moles, symbol mol), and the total amount of all constituents in a mixture, ntot (also expressed in moles): [1] It is denoted ...

  7. Mean percentage error - Wikipedia

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    Percentage error; Mean absolute percentage error; Mean squared error; Mean squared prediction error; Minimum mean-square error; Squared deviations; Peak signal-to-noise ratio; Root mean square deviation; Errors and residuals in statistics; References. Khan, Aman U.; Hildreth, W. Bartley (2003). Case studies in public budgeting and financial ...

  8. Poker calculator - Wikipedia

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    Poker calculator. Poker calculators are algorithms which through probabilistic or statistical means derive a player's chance of winning, losing, or tying a poker hand. [1] [2] Given the complexities of poker and the constantly changing rules, most poker calculators are statistical machines, probabilities and card counting is rarely used.

  9. Employment-to-population ratio - Wikipedia

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    The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development defines the employment rate as the employment-to-population ratio. [1] This is a statistical ratio that measures the proportion of a country's working age population (statistics are often given for ages 15 to 64 [2] [3]) that is employed. This includes people that have stopped looking ...