Discrimination (information)

Discrimination in the original and broadest sense is the ability to distinguish one thing from another.

Business and engineering

 * Discrimination testing is a technique employed in sensory analysis to determine whether there is a detectable difference among two or more products.
 * Markovian discrimination is a method used in spam filters to model the statistical behaviors of spam and nonspam.
 * Net bias (also called data discrimination) is the differentiation of price or quality of Internet data transmission.
 * Price discrimination, or price differentiation, is a pricing strategy where identical or similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider to different customers.
 * Selectivity (circuit breakers) (also known as circuit breaker discrimination) is the coordination of overcurrent protection devices so that a fault in the installation is cleared by the protection device located immediately upstream of the fault.
 * Term discrimination is a way to rank keywords in how useful they are for information retrieval.
 * Word sense discrimination is the automatic identification of the senses of a word.

Biology and psychology

 * Discrimination learning is a topic in the psychology of learning studying the process by which animals or people learn to make different responses to different stimuli.
 * Host discrimination is the ability of some parasitoids to distinguish a host with parasites from an unparasitized host.
 * Kin discrimination is an organism's ability to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin.
 * Self-discrimination in plants is the ability of plants to avoid twining tendrils around themselves.
 * Tactile discrimination is the ability to differentiate information received through the sense of touch.
 * The texture discrimination task is a common task used in visual perception learning.
 * Two-point discrimination is the ability to discern that two nearby objects touching the skin are distinct.
 * Utrocular discrimination is the ability to tell which of two eyes has been stimulated by light.

Other uses

 * Carbon isotope discrimination is the property of certain molecules to preferentially bind specific isotopes of carbon.
 * Discrimination information is a term in information theory and statistics.