While there are variations to the formula, they all in essence treat boarding and alighting as a linear period of time multiplied by a coefficient representative of how much passengers have been slowed down by the circumstances of other passengers, width of the doors and if they are carrying belongings [5].
In 2010, China's Gini-coefficient - a measure of how wealth is distributed in a society - stood at 0.47 (a value of 0 suggests total equality, a value of 1 extreme inequality).
The US-coefficient is indicative of how strongly a quality feature may influence satisfaction or, in case of it "non-fulfillment" user dissatisfaction.
An optimal decomposition and value of k was chosen based on the cophenetic correlation coefficient (a measure of how faithfully clustering approaches preserve pairwise distances and therefore dendrogram structures) and the average reconstruction error (Brunet et al., 2004 ).
Species environment correlation coefficients provided a measure of how well variation in community composition could be explained by individual environmental variables.
Most standard building materials have known "friction coefficients" — that is, measures of how much friction they generate with other surfaces.
In solutions, the activity coefficient is a measure of how much a solution differs from an ideal solution i.e., one in which the effectiveness of each molecule is equal to its theoretical effectiveness.
In statistics, and especially in biostatistics, cophenetic correlation (more precisely, the cophenetic correlation coefficient) is a measure of how faithfully a dendrogram preserves the pairwise distances between the original unmodeled data points.
Considering that the pipe coefficient is an index of how many fine roots are actively contributing to metabolism of the plant (assimilating water and nutrients), it could be argued that increased concurrence and unfavourable local stand characteristics (i.e. soil type) would lead to a reduction in metabolism and thus to a reduction in fine-root number and growth.
The correlation coefficient gives a measure of how linearly related one variable is to another.
