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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

power, ability go
possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done

know-how go
the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something

method go
a way of doing something, especially a systematic way

statistical method, statistical procedure
a method of analyzing or representing statistical data

noun.cognition

3 Subcategories

least squares, method of least squares go
a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve
multivariate analysis go
a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable
regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression go
the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)