| COO | chief operating officer; cost of ownership [analysis] |
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| CPBA | competitive protein-binding analysis |
| CSA | Canadian Standards Association; canavaninosuccinic acid; carbonyl salicylamide; cell surface antigen... |
| CUA | cost-utility analysis [ratio] |
| DDA | Dangerous Drugs Act; dideoxyadenosine; digital differential analysis |
| frequency analysis | <ecology, statistics> A method of evaluating vegetation in an area by establishing a transect and counting the occurrences of plant species at various sampling points along the transect. (07 Apr 1998) |
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| least-squares analysis | A principle of estimation in which the estimates of a set of parameters in a statistical model are those quantities minimizing the sum of squared differences between the observed values of a dependent variable and the values predicted by the model. (12 Dec 1998) |
| linkage analysis | <genetics> Study aimed at establishing linkage between genes. Today linkage analysis serves as a way of gene-hunting and genetic testing. (12 Dec 1998) |