pseudovalue

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ value

Noun

pseudovalue (plural pseudovalues)

1. (mathematics, computing) Something that resembles a value but is not a true value or does not really belong to the set of data being studied.
   • 2013, William Thomson, Peter N. T. Wells, The Perception of Visual Information, page 264:

     Each observer's data generates a pseudovalue of perceptual accuracy and the set of pseudovalues are treated as if they are independent and identically distributed.

   • 2015, Janusz Kacprzyk, Witold Pedrycz, Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, page 300:

     In traditional databases, missing information is mostly handled by means of a pseudovalue, called a null value […]