{"id":9316,"date":"2019-08-15T11:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2019-08-16T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:49:10","slug":"is-parameterization-or-parametrization-correct-when-describing-which-parameters-describe-a-statistical-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/08\/15\/is-parameterization-or-parametrization-correct-when-describing-which-parameters-describe-a-statistical-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8220;parameterization&#8221; or &#8220;parametrization&#8221; correct when describing which parameters describe a statistical model?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AW08152019-3.jpg\" alt=\"Is &quot;parameterization&quot; or &quot;parametrization&quot; correct when describing which parameters describe a statistical model?\" class=\"wp-image-9312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AW08152019-3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AW08152019-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AW08152019-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AW08152019-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Is &#8220;parameterization&#8221; or &#8220;parametrization&#8221; correct when describing which parameters describe a statistical model? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary recognizes both as options (and even parameterisation, imagine that!), so you can choose the one  you like.  I ran a Google Trends search to see usage of the 3 spellings over the past 15 years (bit.ly\/Paramewhat); &#8220;parameterization&#8221; was the clear winner.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford English Dictionary recognizes both as options (and even parameterisation, imagine that!), so you can choose the one you like. I ran a Google Trends search to see usage of the 3 spellings over the past 15 years (bit.ly\/Paramewhat); &#8220;parameterization&#8221; was the clear winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[155,99,702,701,703],"class_list":["post-9316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-uncategorized","tag-math","tag-mathematics","tag-spelling","tag-statistics","tag-usage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9323,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions\/9323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}