Seriation is a way of situating an object within a series. It may refer to:
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Seriation (archaeology)
In archaeology, seriation is a relative dating method in which assemblages or artifacts from numerous sites in the same culture are placed in chronological order. Where absolute dating methods, such as radio carbon, cannot be applied, archaeolo ...
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Seriation (semiotics)
The term ''seriation'' ise en sériewas proposed for use in semiotics by Jean Molino and derived from classical philology. Seriation "invokes the idea that any investigator, in order to assign some plausible meaning to a given phenomenon, must in ...
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Seriation (statistics) In combinatorial data analysis, seriation is the process of finding an arrangement of all objects in a set, in a linear order, given a loss function
In mathematical optimization and decision theory, a loss function or cost function (sometimes also ...
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