Definitions
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- noun trigonometry Any of several
single-valued ormultivalued functions that are inverses of thesine function. Symbol:arcsin , sin-1
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- noun the inverse function of the sine; the angle that has a sine equal to a given number
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Examples
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Drops of blood splash differently depending on the angle at which they strike a hard surface, and arcsine equations can be used to reconstruct the path that the blood took through the air.
The Forensics of War Junger, Sebastian 1999
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In order to approximate normality, mol% concentrations were transformed using the square root of the arcsine Heat map and dendrograms of lipid distribution.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jarrod J. Scott et al. 2010
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The heat map is arranged according to sample and lipid clustering analysis and mol% values were arcsine-transformed.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jarrod J. Scott et al. 2010
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As both orgNSAF and wcNSAF values essentially represent percentages, all data were arcsine transformed
Naturejobs - All Jobs Ryan S Mueller 2010
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Ratios and percentages were arcsine transformed prior to statistical analysis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Emilio A. Herrera et al. 2010
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For multivariate PCA, all lipids (mol%) were transformed using the square root of the arcsine to approximate normality Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of lipid markers recovered from the four sample types.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jarrod J. Scott et al. 2010
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Proportion of germinated seeds was arcsine transformed to achieve normality, but we were not able to transform timing of anther-stigma contact successfully; however, as the distribution was not skewed, this should pose no serious problem
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Josefin A. Madjidian et al. 2009
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These are known as the hyperbolic arcsine, hyperbolic arccosine, hyperbolic arctangent, hyper - bolic arccosecant, hyperbolic arcsecant, and hyperbolic arccotangent.
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The range of the arcsine function is limited to values of y between, and including, -90 and 90 (-/2 rad and/2 rad).
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Proportion of germinated seeds was arcsine transformed to achieve normality, but we were not able to transform timing of anther-stigma contact successfully; however, as the distribution was not skewed, this should pose no serious problem
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