Nesting (disambiguation)
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Nesting may refer to:
  • building or having a nest
    Nest
    A nest is a place of refuge to hold an animal's eggs or provide a place to live or raise offspring. They are usually made of some organic material such as twigs, grass, and leaves; or may simply be a depression in the ground, or a hole in a tree, rock or building...

  • Nesting instinct
    Nesting instinct
    Nesting instinct refers to an instinct or urge in pregnant animals to prepare a home for the upcoming newborn. It is found in a variety of animals including humans.-In animals:...

  • Nesting, Shetland
    Nesting, Shetland
    Nesting is a parish in the east of Mainland, Shetland. It includes not only a part of the Mainland, measure about twelve miles by four, on coast and seaboard from Gletness to Lunna Ness; comprehends also the islands of Whalsay and the Out Skerries, and is much diversified on all its coasts by voes...

  • Nesting (computing)
    Nesting (computing)
    In computing science and informatics, the word nesting may denote several different constructions and activities where information is organized in layers or objects contain other similar objects. The rather general term is thus used in quite specific ways for various situations and concepts...

  • Nesting (voting districts)
    Nesting (voting districts)
    Nesting is the delimitation of voting districts for one elected body in order to define the voting districts for another body. For example, in California, the State Assembly is composed of 80 members, each one representing 1/80th of California's population, and the State Senate is composed of 40...

    , the process of combining or splitting of voting districts
  • Nesting (process), a process of efficiently manufacturing parts from flat raw material
  • Nested sampling algorithm
    Nested sampling algorithm
    The nested sampling algorithm is a computational approach to the problem of comparing models in Bayesian statistics, developed in 2004 by physicist John Skilling.-Background:...

    , a method in Bayesian statistics
  • Nested variation or nested data, described at restricted randomization
    Restricted randomization
    Many processes have more than one source of variation in them. In order to reduce variation in processes, these multiple sources must be understood, and that often leads to the concept of nested or hierarchical data structures. For example, in the semiconductor industry, a batch process may operate...

    • Nested case-control study
      Nested case-control study
      A nested case control study is a variation of a case-cohort study in which only a subset of controls from the cohort are compared to the incident cases. In a case-cohort study, all incident cases in the cohort are compared to a random subset of participants who do not develop the disease of interest...

      , a case when this occurs

See also

  • All articles beginning with Nesting
  • Nest (disambiguation)
    Nest (disambiguation)
    A nest is an animal's home.Nest may also refer to:* National Employment Savings Trust, the UK's default workplace pension scheme* Nest , an album by the Odds* Nest , a Finnish band...

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