Glossary R

The Environmental Glossary. Letter R +++ Popular Articles: 'Range', 'Resource', 'Recycling'

A Regionalization or Ecoregionalization is procedure for subdividing a geographic area into regions of relative homogeneity in ecological systems or in relationship between organisms

A regression is any of a number of statistical techniques in which the relationship of one (or more) variable(s) is (are) estimated as a function of another variable or variables.

A Regression Analysis is a statistical procedure used to determine the relationship between one or more independent variables and a dependent variable; a measurement of change in one variable as the result of changes in other variables.

A relation is the concept of function, correlation, or association between or among attributes,

Relative Abundances are measure of the population of one species in an ecosystem as compared to other species within that same ecosystem; number of individuals in any given species compared to the total number of individuals in the community

A Relative percent difference (RPD) is a measure of precision, calculated by the following formula:

Relative standard deviation see Coefficient of variation.

Deutsch: Freisetzung / Español: Liberación / Português: Liberação / Français: Libération / Italiano: Rilascio /

A Release is when a hazardous substance goes from a controlled condition (for example, inside a truck, barrel, storage tank, or landfill) to an uncontrolled condition in the air, water, or land.

The Reliability is the ability of a system, process, or parameter to do what is expected or specified under set conditions and designated time interval without failure.

A RELs is Recommended Exposure Limits (recommendations made by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)).

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