Discrimination (information)
Discrimination in the original and broadest sense is the ability to distinguish one thing from another.
This article is about the ability to distinguish one thing from another. For the prejudicial treatment, see Discrimination.is a technique employed in sensory analysis to determine whether there is a detectable difference among two or more products.
Discrimination testing
is a method used in spam filters to model the statistical behaviors of spam and nonspam.
Markovian discrimination
(also called data discrimination) is the differentiation of price or quality of Internet data transmission.
Net bias
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.
Price discrimination
(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.
Selectivity (circuit breakers)
is a way to rank keywords in how useful they are for information retrieval.
Term discrimination
is the automatic identification of the senses of a word.
Word sense discrimination
is a topic in the psychology of learning studying the process by which animals or people learn to make different responses to different stimuli.
Discrimination learning
is the ability of some parasitoids to distinguish a host with parasites from an unparasitized host.
Host discrimination
is an organism's ability to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin.
Kin discrimination
is the ability of plants to avoid twining tendrils around themselves.
Self-discrimination in plants
is the ability to differentiate information received through the sense of touch.
Tactile discrimination
The is a common task used in visual perception learning.
texture discrimination task
is the ability to discern that two nearby objects touching the skin are distinct.
Two-point discrimination
is the ability to tell which of two eyes has been stimulated by light.
Utrocular discrimination
is the property of certain molecules to preferentially bind specific isotopes of carbon.
Carbon isotope discrimination
is a term in information theory and statistics.
Discrimination information
a term in mathematics.