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Taxonomy vs Autocorrelation - What's the difference?

taxonomy | autocorrelation |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and autocorrelation

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while autocorrelation is (statistics|signal processing) the cross-correlation of a signal with itself: the correlation between values of a signal in successive time periods.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    autocorrelation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (statistics, signal processing) The cross-correlation of a signal with itself: the correlation between values of a signal in successive time periods.
  • * {{quote-book, 1990, K. Holden, D. Peel & John L. Thompson, Economic Forecasting citation
    • , passage=Dividing the covariances by the variance gives the autocorrelations .}}

    Derived terms

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    Related terms

    * * * *

    See also

    * (wikipedia "autocorrelation")