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binomial distribution(medicine)
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binomial(dictionary)
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photosensitize (iou) and negative binomial distribution (medicine)


photosensitize (iou)



photosensitize verb trans. Also photosensitise. E20.
[from PHOTO- + SENSITIZE.]
Chemistry. Of a substance: initiate (a chemical change) by absorbing light energy and transferring it to a reactant. E20.
Make photosensitive. M20.
,photosensiti'zation noun E20.
photosensitizer noun (a) a substance capable of photosensitizing a reaction; (b) a photodynamic substance: E20.

negative binomial distribution (medicine)


negative binomial distribution
<epidemiology> A distribution which is parameterised by a mean m and an aggregation parameter k which is large when aggregation is small; in fact as k becomes large, the negative binomial distribution approximates the Poisson distribution.