* Although the Markov chain eventually converges to the desired distribution, the initial samples may follow a very different distribution, especially if the starting point is in a region of low density.

As a result, a burn-in period is typically necessary, where an initial number of samples ( e. g. the first 1, 000 or so ) are thrown away.

In sharp contrast to this population genetic phenomenon of regression to the mean, which is best thought of as a combination of a binomially distributed process of inheritance ( plus normally distributed environmental influences ), the term " regression to the mean " is now often used to describe completely different phenomena in which an initial sampling bias may disappear as new, repeated, or larger samples display sample means that are closer to the true underlying population mean.

They achieved initial critical acclaim with their 1989 album Liquidizer, and in particular, the single " Info Freako ", which featured buzzing rock guitars with samples and a hip-hop sensibility, relatively new at the time.

( This is also why. SPC rips of the game music for Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean frequently sound scratchy and garbled: The files only store the initial sound samples at the time of the. spc capture, rather than similarly rotating samples during the course of the song.

Featuring a broader spectrum of sounds than the James Brown samples that had defined the initial release, Follow the Leader saw Rakim at his most lyrically fierce, issuing deft and def threats on such tracks as ' Microphone Fiend ,' ' Lyrics of Fury ,' and the nearly felonious ' No Competition.

500 CE – 1000 CE, successively sweep Arctic North America while having little genetic impact on Native American populations further South, that presumably have origins that date back to the initial colonization of the Americas by modern humans from Asia ( who are the first hominins to live there ), and ancient DNA shows genetic continuity from the Thule to modern Inuit ( whose genetics are remarkably homogeneous ), dominated by the A2a, A2b, and D3 mtDNA haplotypes, while " Haplotype D2 ( 3 %), found among modern Aleut and Siberian Eskimos, was identified at a low frequency in the modern samples but not the ancient.

The USMC design team in charge of this process went through over 150 different camo patterns before selecting three samples that met their initial objectives.

Detection of drugs and pharmaceuticals in biological samples is usually done by an initial screening and then a confirmation of the compound ( s ), which may include a quantitation of the compound ( s ).

The initial research data was gathered by collecting and evaluating responses from participants in Varsity Scouting programs, by means of surveys made on random samples of populations of 14-and 15-year-old boys located in Utah and Idaho, the two states comprising the pre-pilot area.

A sketch for fan by Pat Sullivan, samples such as this were used to match Sullivan's lettering in the initial works of Felix

After taking blood samples and infusing them with harmless retroviruses carrying the gene to correct the initial gene that was causing their illness, the blood was transfused back into the ten children.

After an initial " white label " period ( a now-common " trial release " for a dance recording that is often unhindered by legal clearance for any samples it contains ), Black Box had legally acquired the license to Mr. Hartman's composition and the use of the Salsoul recording.

Lloyd's algorithm starts with an initial distribution of samples or points and consists of repeatedly executing one relaxation step:

The initial model, the Cray-1A, weighed 5. 5 tons including the Freon refrigeration system.

The rounds weighed 51. 5 g ( 795 gn ) with an initial velocity of.

Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with just as few veils across their bodies as in nightclubs.

Antoninus made few initial changes when he became emperor, leaving intact as far as possible the arrangements instituted by Hadrian.

Remarkably, the growth of polycrystalline films is often used and preceded by an initial amorphous layer, the thickness of which may amount to only a few nm.

Though there were few initial changes to the service, usage increased and the network became profitable.

As effect of these restrictions the country incorporated very few new crops and animal breeds after initial conquest.

Frequently, however, the initial deprogramming only last a few days.

Many patients are able to tolerate the initial few weeks without any problem whatsoever.

Beyond the first few decades after the initial invasion, Roman historians generally mention Britannia only in passing.

The initial move scattered the followers and reduced Rapp's original group of 12, 000 to just a few followers.

Icon of the Melanesian Brotherhood Martyrs at Canterbury Cathedral ( Anglican Communion ) With the Reformation, after an initial uncertainty among early Lutherans, who painted a few " icon "- like depictions of leading Reformers, and continued to paint scenes from Scripture, Protestants came down firmly against icon-like portraits, especially larger ones, even of Christ.

The initial specified clock frequency limit was 2 MHz and with common instructions having execution times of 4, 5, 7, 10 or 11 cycles this meant a few hundred thousand instructions per second.

Although the Army's initial July 1941 guidelines for OCS had been drafted as race-neutral, practically speaking few black applicants were admitted into OCS until after subsequent directives by Army leadership.

A characteristic of the Merlot grape is the propensity to quickly overripen once it hits its initial ripeness level, sometimes in a matter of a few days.

The former is described by a few equations, whereas the latter requires the specification of vast amounts of initial data on some hypersurface.

The initial author was Omni, but several others were charged with keeping the record as time passed, though few made significant contributions.

If the initial infection is mostly in the lower tract, after treatment the person may have few difficulties.

The initial discovery was made by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909 when they performed the gold foil experiment under the direction of Rutherford, in which they fired a beam of alpha particles ( helium nuclei ) at layers of gold leaf only a few atoms thick.

The dental amalgam achieves initial hardness within minutes but sets hard in a few hours.

This permitted initial execution of the interrupt routines, since base registers would not necessarily be set to 0 during the first few instruction cycles of an interrupt routine.

Tamil phonology permits few consonant clusters, which can never be word initial.

However, this trick was used in turn by the Empress of the Racnoss, which pulled the TARDIS from the creation of the Earth to only a few minutes after its initial departure.

Summing up, he stated that in all these tests, the use of ebonite plates covered with copper or mixtures of copper and tin was less satisfactory than the use of filings ; with the plates, he was unable to obtain the initial resistance of the body after the action of the spark or of the current, while with the tubes and filings, the resistance could be brought back to its normal value by striking a few sharp blows on the support of the tube.

The types of state-to-state transitions available to electrons during an Auger event are dependent on several factors, ranging from initial excitation energy to relative interaction rates, yet are often dominated by a few characteristic transitions.

and a few days later, the Post reported that Robert Ranghelli, one of the SCI employees who had corroborated the initial reports of improper handing of corpses, was fired for " speaking with the media " after having been on administrative leave for several months following the initial reports in the newspaper.

The device releases the hormone at an initial rate of 20 micrograms per day and declines to a rate of 14 micrograms after 5 years, which is still in the range of clinical effectiveness.