parametric

[ par-uh-me-trik ]

adjective

1. of or relating to a parameter, mathematical or statistical variable:

   For the statistical analysis, we used a parametric approach, estimating the parameters of a probability distribution.

Word History and Origins

Origin of parametric¹

para- ¹ + -metric ( def )

Example Sentences

The parameters around who will receive the vaccine, when, and how are still murky.

From Fortune

Definitions differ about the exact parameters of the Atlanta metropolitan area, but 10 counties6 are part of a governing collaborative called the Atlanta Regional Commission.

From FiveThirtyEight

Building AI models involves making many small changes—adding parameters here, adjusting values there.

From MIT Technology Review

Strength “decays” on an exponential curve, so they boiled this down to a mathematical parameter for decay time.

From Ars Technica

The Human brain has about a hundred trillion parameters, that is synapsis.

From MIT Technology Review

His doctoral thesis was titled “Contributions to the Theory of Parametric Estimation in Randomly Censored Data.”

From The Daily Beast

We are victims of habit, and we tend to provide such information in parametric form.

From Project Gutenberg