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Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, 1,250 ft Art Deco skyscraper at 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, built in 1 year and 45 days (1930-1931) by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon; famous for its mooring mast, observatories, Depression-era struggles, and 2010 green retrofit.
Empire State of Mind
Empire State of Mind: 2009 hip-hop song by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys from The Blueprint 3, his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 as lead artist, two-time 2011 Grammy winner, and an unofficial New York City anthem.
Empire style
The Empire style is the late phase of Neoclassicism in architecture, furniture, and decoration that developed in France under Napoleon and flourished from about 1800 to 1815.
Empire Test Pilots' School
The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) is a British school for training test pilots and flight test engineers, based at MoD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, England.
Empire Wind 1
Empire Wind 1 is an 810-megawatt offshore wind farm under construction by Equinor south of Long Island, New York, expected in 2027 to power more than 500,000 homes.
Empire: Total War
Empire: Total War (aka Total War: EMPIRE), Creative Assembly/SEGA, 4 March 2009, fifth Total War game set from 1701; first in series with 3D real-time naval battles, trade theaters, Warpath Campaign expansion, Metacritic 90.
Empires & Puzzles
Empires & Puzzles is a free-to-play mobile match-3 puzzle role-playing game developed by Helsinki-based Small Giant Games and launched in 2017 for iOS and Android, combining tile-matching combat with hero collection, base building, and player-versus-player raids.
Empires in Arms
Empires in Arms, a 1983 grand strategic board wargame by Harry Rowland and Greg Pinder (Australian Design Group, later Avalon Hill 1986), simulating Napoleonic Wars diplomacy and warfare 1805-1815 for 2-7 major powers, with a 2007 Matrix Games PC version.
Empiric antibiotic therapy
Empiric antibiotic therapy is the practice of starting antibiotics for a suspected bacterial infection before the pathogen and its susceptibilities are known, later narrowing the regimen.
Empirical adequacy
Empirical adequacy is the property of a theory whose claims about observable things and events are true, a notion central to van Fraassen's constructive empiricism.
Empirical antibiotic therapy
Empirical antibiotic therapy is the initial antibiotic regimen for a suspected bacterial infection, chosen before the pathogen and its susceptibilities are known, and later narrowed based on culture results.
Empirical Bayes estimation
Empirical Bayes estimation is a statistical approach that estimates the prior distribution from observed data rather than fixing it in advance, introduced by Herbert Robbins in 1955.
Empirical Bayes method
The empirical Bayes method is a statistical technique that estimates a prior distribution's parameters from the data, then computes posterior distributions as if the prior were known.
Empirical Bayes methods
Empirical Bayes methods are statistical techniques that estimate the prior distribution of a model from the data itself, then apply Bayes' rule with that estimated prior; Herbert Robbins named the approach in 1956.
Empirical distribution function
The empirical distribution function (EDF), also called the empirical cumulative distribution function, is a statistical estimator that assigns each of n observations probability 1/n and underlies goodness-of-fit tests.
Empirical evidence
Empirical evidence: information from observation, experiment, or measurement used to support or challenge claims; central to science, epistemology, law, and medicine, with issues of theory-ladenness and underdetermination.
Empirical formula
An empirical formula is a chemical formula showing the simplest whole-number ratio of atoms in a compound; butene (C4H8) and ethylene (C2H4) both reduce to CH2.
Empirical interpolation method
The empirical interpolation method is a greedy numerical technique that approximates parametrized functions at automatically selected points, introduced in 2004 to restore the offline-online decomposition in reduced-basis solvers of parametrized partial differential equations.
Empirical likelihood
Empirical likelihood is a nonparametric statistical method that assigns probability weights to observed data points and maximizes the likelihood under constraints, yielding tests and confidence regions without parametric assumptions.
Empirical measure
An empirical measure is a random probability measure constructed from observed data by placing equal mass at each sampled point; in statistics it proxies the unknown underlying distribution.
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, or EMNLP, is an annual academic conference on natural language processing, first held in 1996 and one of the main NLP publication venues alongside ACL.
Empirical mode decomposition
Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is an adaptive signal-processing method that decomposes nonlinear, nonstationary time series into intrinsic mode functions; with the Hilbert transform it forms the Hilbert–Huang transform, developed at NASA in 1998.
Empirical orthogonal functions
Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis decomposes a geophysical field, such as sea level pressure, into orthogonal spatial patterns paired with uncorrelated time series; it is also known as principal component analysis.
Empirical process
An empirical process is the centered, √n-scaled version of an empirical distribution function, G_n(x) = √n(F_n(x) − F(x)), underlying goodness-of-fit tests like Kolmogorov–Smirnov; Donsker's theorem shows it converges to a Brownian bridge.
Empirical research
Empirical research, also known as an empirical study, is research that draws conclusions from data gathered through direct observation, experiment, or survey, rather than from pure reasoning or theory.
Empirical risk minimization
Empirical risk minimization (ERM) is a statistical learning principle that picks the model minimizing average loss on training data; Vapnik developed its theory in the 1960s and 1970s.
Empirical wavelet transform
The empirical wavelet transform (EWT) is a signal processing method, introduced by Jérôme Gilles in 2013, that builds a wavelet filter bank adapted to the analyzed signal's frequency content.
Empiricism
Empiricism, also known as empiricist epistemology, is the philosophical position that sense experience is the only source of knowledge, opposed to rationalism and associated with Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.
Empis
Empis Linnaeus, 1758 is a large genus of dance flies (Empididae) with about 810 species on all continents, dagger-like predatory mouthparts, long proboscis, and male nuptial prey gifts; non-monophyletic per UCE phylogenomics.
EmployBridge
EmployBridge is an Atlanta-based provider of outsourced HR services and specialty-branded temporary staffing for manufacturing, warehousing, and transportation, which it calls the largest industrial staffing company in the United States.