In dictionaries:
Public nuisance
Interference with community rights, enjoyment.
private nuisance
Interference with use of property.
nuisance value
Annoyance worth tolerating for benefits.
attractive nuisance
Hazardous property enticing to children.
nuisance parameter
(statistics) A parameter of the distribution of a population that is not directly relevant to solving the significance test or estimate problem under consideration.
common nuisance
Annoyance affecting the general public.
nuisance abatement
Elimination of property-based disturbances.
Nuisance variable
In the theory of stochastic processes in probability theory and statistics, a nuisance variable is a random variable that is fundamental to the probabilistic model, but that is of no particular interest in itself or is no longer of any interest: one such usage arises for the Chapman–Kolmogorov equation.
nuisance calls
nuisance taxes
nuisance alarm
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