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  2. Water testing - Wikipedia

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    In late 2009, a survey was carried out by China Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to assess the water quality of urban supplies in China's cities, which revealed that "at least 1,000" water treatment plants out of more than 4,000 plants surveyed at the county level and above failed to comply with government requirements.

  3. Variance - Wikipedia

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    If the set is a sample from the whole population, then the unbiased sample variance can be calculated as 1017.538 that is the sum of the squared deviations about the mean of the sample, divided by 11 instead of 12. A function VAR.S in Microsoft Excel gives the unbiased sample variance while VAR.P is for population variance.

  4. Sampling (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    A visual representation of the sampling process. In statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset or a statistical sample (termed sample for short) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

  5. Product development (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    Product development process involves many people with specialist skills, from identifying product attributes to knowing how to make the product to fulfil consumer expectations.: 8 The performance of prototypes (initial product samples) is examined in conjunction with user, wear, and product testing by R&D (research and development).

  6. Sample (material) - Wikipedia

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    The material may be solid, liquid, gas, a material of some intermediate characteristics such as gel or sputum, tissue, organism, or a combination of these.Even if a material sample is not countable as individual items, the quantity of the sample may still be describable in terms of its volume, mass, size, or other such dimensions.

  7. Sample space - Wikipedia

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    A sample space is usually denoted using set notation, and the possible ordered outcomes, or sample points, [5] are listed as elements in the set. It is common to refer to a sample space by the labels S, Ω, or U (for "universal set"). The elements of a sample space may be numbers, words, letters, or symbols.

  8. Universal Product Code - Wikipedia

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    A UPC barcode. The Universal Product Code (UPC or UPC code) is a barcode symbology that is used worldwide for tracking trade items in stores.. The chosen symbology has bars (or spaces) of exactly 1, 2, 3, or 4 units wide each; each decimal digit to be encoded consists of two bars and two spaces chosen to have a total width of 7 units, in both an "even" and an "odd" parity form, which enables ...

  9. Prototype - Wikipedia

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    Prototype signage on the Boise Greenbelt, testing for rust, paint-fastness, durability, etc. A sign explaining prototype signage. A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process. [1]