not central, esp referring to location or importance
2. mathematics
relating to a curve or surface that does not have a centre
3. statistics
having a mean that is not zero
4. physics
related to a force that is not central
Examples of 'noncentral' in a sentence
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Their plasma and noncentral blood volumes are increased.
Søren Møller, Flemming Bendtsen, Jens H Henriksen 2001, 'Splanchnic and Systemic Haemodynamic Derangement in Decompensated Cirrhosis', Canadian Journal of Gastroenterologyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2001/603012. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We show that a ring with only finitely many noncentral subrings must be either commutative or finite.
Abraham A. Klein, Howard E. Bell 2004, 'A commutativity-or-finiteness condition for rings', International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Scienceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171204405420. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This method uses noncentral distributions to specify the alternative hypothesis, and the statistical power can thus be directly computed.
Sébastien Hélie 2007, 'Understanding statistical power using noncentral probability distributions: Chi-squared,G-squared, and ANOVA', Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychologyhttp://www.tqmp.org/Content/vol03-2/p063/p063.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)