best-fit

I hate to be picky but as I teach undergraduate statistics: no correlation should be a bunch of dots all over the place that has no best-fit line!

Powder won’t change who you are. 2009

Do we want quasi-state actors trying to make best-fit determination?

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home 2010

The NMRP runs a computer algorithm to ostensibly come up with a mutually best-fit allocation of residents to residency programs.

Harvard's Decision on Early Decision, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Scatter plot and linear best-fit line comparing June average temperature and summer average temperature.

Relentless heat threatens D.C.'s June record 2010

A recent conversation has had me thinking about two somewhat complementary and somewhat contradictory life philosophies concerning "quality" - by which I (think I) mean, things that are best-fit for your needs and desires.

Search for Quality da_lj 2008

Hmm, so companies are consumed by the hot topics of employee engagement and retention; they strive to tie employee goals and performance to corporate goals; they pre-screen to ensure they get the best-fit new hires with less likelihood of quick turnover; and yet, the vast majority of employees are not enabled to do what they are best at doing!

2008 June « TalentedApps 2008

Do we want quasi-state actors trying to make best-fit determination?

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home 2010

Hmm, so companies are consumed by the hot topics of employee engagement and retention; they strive to tie employee goals and performance to corporate goals; they pre-screen to ensure they get the best-fit new hires with less likelihood of quick turnover; and yet, the vast majority of employees are not enabled to do what they are best at doing!

The Corporate Death of the Synergistic Team? « TalentedApps 2008

Bottom line: As these numbers clearly show, if these two states had held recognized contests with turnout in line with the best-fit curve for the other states, it seems likely that many more voters would have turned out -- possibly as many as one million in Florida, and over half a million in Michigan -- and we simply can't know how those people would have voted.

Do Florida And Michigan Primaries Really Reflect The Will Of The People? Nope. 2009

We also employed econometric methods to estimate the central tendency (or "best-fit") of the normalized marginal cost functions from the eleven studies as a rough guide for policy makers of the projected availability of carbon sequestration at various costs.

Robert Stavins: What Role for U.S. Carbon Sequestration? 2009