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  Consistency can refer to:

  • Consistency (database systems)
  • Consistency (negotiation)
    Consistency (negotiation)

    In negotiation, consistency, or the consistency principle, refers to a negotiator's strong psychological need to be consistent with prior acts and statements....
    , the psychological need to be consistent with prior acts and statements
  • "Consistency", an 1887 speech by Mark Twain
    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
  • The consistency criterion
    Consistency criterion

    A voting system is consistent if, when the electorate is divided arbitrarily into two parts and separate elections in each part result in the same choice being selected, an election of the entire electorate also selects that alternative....
    , a measure of a voting system requiring that where one is elected by all segments of the voters, one must win the election
  • Consistency Theory
    Consistency Theory

    Consistency Theory is the second album from Melbourne, Australia Hip hop music group 1200 Techniques. Released in 2004, it sees the group moving away from the diverse influences of their first album, to a more straightforward, arguably commercial Hip hop music sound....
    , an album by 1200 Techniques
  • Consistent histories
    Consistent histories

    In quantum mechanics, the consistent histories approach is intended to give a modern interpretation of quantum mechanics, generalising the conventional Copenhagen interpretation and providing a natural interpretation of quantum cosmology....
     (quantum mechanics)
  • Consistent Life Ethic
    Consistent Life Ethic

    The Consistent Life Ethic, or Consistent Ethic of Life, is an ethical, religious, and political ideology based on the premise that all life is sacred....
    , an ideology stating that life is sacred


In computer science

  • Consistent hashing
    Consistent hashing

    Consistent hashing is a scheme that provides hash table functionality in a way that the addition or removal of one slot does not significantly change the mapping of keys to slots....
  • Consistent heuristic
    Consistent heuristic

    In computer science, a Heuristic is consistent if, for every node n and every successor p of n generated by any action a, the estimated cost of reaching the goal from n is no greater than the step cost of getting to p plus the estimated cost of reaching the goal from p....
  • Consistency model
    Consistency model

    In computer science, in a distributed system such as a distributed shared memory system or a distributed data store such as a database, filesystem, web caching or Optimistic_replication systems, there are a number of possible data consistency models....


In logic

  • Consistency
    Consistency

    Consistency can refer to:* Consistency * Consistency , the psychological need to be consistent with prior acts and statements* "Consistency", an 1887 speech by Mark Twain...
  • Equiconsistency
    Equiconsistency

    In mathematics, specifically in mathematical logic, formal theory are studied as mathematical objects. Since some theories are powerful enough to model different mathematical objects, it is natural to wonder about their own consistency....


In statistics

  • Consistent estimator
    Consistent estimator

    In statistics, a consistent sequence of estimators is one which convergence in probability to the true value of the parameter. Often, the sequence of estimators is indexed by sample size, and so the consistency is as sample size tends to infinity....
  • Consistent test: see Statistical hypothesis testing
    Statistical hypothesis testing

    A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making statistical decisions using experimental data. It is sometimes called confirmatory data analysis, in contrast to exploratory data analysis....
  • Fisher consistency
    Fisher consistency

    Fisher consistency is a description of a statistical construct, used to describe probable outcomes within a certain set of "consistent outcomes"....