Substitution (law) — In legal terms, the Right of Substitution is a statutory right of all parties except the State. It is the right to change the presiding court official with or without cause.Judges are usually given cases randomly within a jurisdiction (unless… … Wikipedia
Substitution model — A substitution model describes the process from which a sequence of characters of a fixed size from some alphabet changes into another set of traits. For example, in cladistics, each position in the sequence might correspond to a property of a… … Wikipedia
Substitution matrix — In evolutionary biology, a substitution matrix describes the rate at which one character in a sequence changes to other character states over time. Substitution matrices are usually seen in the context of amino acid or DNA sequence alignments,… … Wikipedia
Experimenter's bias — In experimental science, experimenter s bias is subjective bias towards a result expected by the human experimenter. David Sackett,[1] in a useful review of biases in clinical studies, states that biases can occur in any one of seven stages of… … Wikipedia
Cognitive bias — For an article about the conceptual problems of the mind see Cognitive closure (philosophy). Psychology … Wikipedia
Synonymous substitution — A synonymous substitution (also called a silent substitution) is the evolutionary substitution of one base for another in an exon of a gene coding for a protein, such that the amino acid sequence produced is not modified.Redundancy in DNAProtein… … Wikipedia
Boskin Commission — The Boskin Commission, formally called the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index , was appointed by the United States Senate in 1995 to study possible bias in the computation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is used to… … Wikipedia
Consumer price index by country — Contents 1 Argentina 2 Australia 3 Belgium 4 Canada … Wikipedia
Judicial disqualification — Judicial disqualification, also referred to as recusal, refers to the act of abstaining from participation in an official action such as a legal proceeding due to a conflict of interest of the presiding court official or administrative officer.… … Wikipedia
List of cognitive biases — A cognitive bias is a pattern of poor judgment, often triggered by a particular situation. Identifying poor judgment, or more precisely, a deviation in judgment, requires a standard for comparison, i.e. good judgment . In scientific… … Wikipedia
