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leptokurtotic

having a large hindquarters. from the statistical description of 'fat-tailed' distributions.

do these jeans make me look leptokurtotic?

by shabbychef September 10, 2009


Snack Trap

Sandlot slang for 'mouth'. c.f. pie hole. Appropriate for use in the company of young children. 'Snack Trap' is a semi-generic name for a plastic container often seen full of Cheerios in the hands of 2-year olds.

Father: I really don't want to read this 'Thomas the Tank' dreck anymore.
Mother: Shut your snack trap, daddy, I've read it three times already today.

Child: We went to the Exploratorium and daddy got me some Jelly Beans!
Mother: Jelly Beans?! Really?
Father: Watch your snack trap, kid, that was supposed to be a secret!

by shabbychef August 27, 2012


huberize

to apply a symmetric, continuously differentiable, piecewise analytic transform which is quadratic near zero, but linear past some threshold, to a quantity, especially an error. To do so maintains smooth derivatives for optimization purposes, but is more robust against outliers than purely quadratic error norms;

'dude, I totally huberized that residual.'

by shabbychef February 14, 2009

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Posterior Analysis

To look surreptitiously and luridly at the hindquarters of a member of the appropriate sex from a distance, especially as practiced by statisticians, mathematicians, etc.

When they brought those due diligence chicks in for our 1 o'clock feeding, I was caught doing a posterior analysis on the asian one with the houndstooth skirt. Man I was embarassed.

by shabbychef September 10, 2009