Meissner’s corpuscle

a type of small, oval sensory-nerve ending that is sensitive to touch. Meissner’s corpuscles are abundant in the fingertips, nipples, lips, and the tip of the tongue. [Georg Meissner (1829–1905), German anatomist and physiologist]

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November 24th 2024

commonality analysis

in multiple regression, a technique by which the known variance in an outcome or response variable is separated out into the parts that can be uniquely attributed to each individual predictor variable and the parts that are common to any two or more variables.