Discrimination (information)

Discrimination in the original and broadest sense is the ability to distinguish one thing from another.

Business and engineering

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  • 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

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Other uses

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