pseudovalue
nounEtymology From pseudo- + value.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Something that resembles a value but is not a true value or does not really belong to the set of data being studied.
- Each observer's data generates a pseudovalue of perceptual accuracy and the set of pseudovalues are treated as if they are independent and identically distributed.2013, William Thomson, Peter N. T. Wells, The Perception of Visual Information, page 264:
- In traditional databases, missing information is mostly handled by means of a pseudovalue, called a null value […]2015, Janusz Kacprzyk, Witold Pedrycz, Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, page 300: