• computer science, best, worst, and average cases of a given algorithm express what the resource usage is at least, at most and on average, respectively....
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    assessments, a worst-case scenario is essentially a type of bounding estimate". In computer science, the best, worst, and average case of a given algorithm...
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    will perform about half as many comparisons as selection sort on average. In the worst case for insertion sort (when the input array is reverse-sorted), insertion...
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  • primary motivations for studying average-case complexity. First, although some problems may be intractable in the worst-case, the inputs which elicit this...
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  • used by the British Citizens Advice charity Best, worst and average case, in computer science, types of case analysis Computer-aided software engineering...
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  • complexity, and decision tree complexity. The complexity of an algorithm is often expressed using big O notation. The best, worst and average case complexity...
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    size may cause the algorithm to have different behavior, so best, worst and average case descriptions might all be of practical interest. When not otherwise...
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    notation, divide-and-conquer algorithms, data structures such as heaps and binary trees, randomized algorithms, best, worst and average case analysis, time–space...
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  • Search for "worst-case-scenario"  or "worst-case" on Wikipedia. Case (disambiguation) Best, worst and average case, in computer science Worst Case (novel)...
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  • computer science (specifically computational complexity theory), the worst-case complexity measures the resources (e.g. running time, memory) that an...
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  • method for measuring comparative execution times in defined cases Best, worst and average case—considerations for estimating execution times in three scenarios...
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    This reduces the average complexity from O ( n log ⁡ n ) {\displaystyle O(n\log n)} to O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)} , with a worst case of O ( n 2 ) {\displaystyle...
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  • algorithm that is a hybrid of quickselect and median of medians which has fast average performance and optimal worst-case performance. Introselect is related...
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    constant factor (both in average-case and worst-case), at any finite length. The algorithm was published in Blum et al. (1973), and thus is sometimes called...
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    Quicksort (category Divide-and-conquer algorithms)
    that, on average, quicksort performs only about 39% worse than in its best case. In this sense, it is closer to the best case than the worst case. A comparison...
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  • list has been searched. A linear search runs in linear time in the worst case, and makes at most n comparisons, where n is the length of the list. If...
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  • the input distributions. Amortized analysis Average-case complexity Best, worst and average case Random self-reducibility Principle of deferred decision...
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    iteration, increasing the number of iterations required in the average and worst case. This is the case for other search algorithms based on comparisons, as while...
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    Kenneth E. Iverson who coined its current name. Bubble sort has a worst-case and average complexity of O ( n 2 ) {\displaystyle O(n^{2})} , where n {\displaystyle...
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    the worst film ever made, and Charlie Jane Anders of Gawker Media's io9 described it as "possibly the worst movie in history." Rotten Tomatoes placed Maniac...
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    the conditions of worst and average case and in the sense of a minimax value of a zero-sum game in game theory. With four holes and six colors, there...
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    Bush the sixth-worst president of all time while Republican scholars rated him the sixth-best, giving him a split-decision rating of "average". In 2008, The...
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  • Bestworst scaling (BWS) techniques involve choice modelling (or discrete choice experiment – "DCE") and were invented by Jordan Louviere in 1987 while...
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  • The worst-case execution time (WCET) of a computational task is the maximum length of time the task could take to execute on a specific hardware platform...
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  • programs themselves. best, worst and average case Expressions of what the resource usage is at least, at most, and on average, respectively, for a given...
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  • random, and repeating the process until the deck is sorted. In a worst-case scenario with this version, the random source is of low quality and happens...
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  • (including RSA, discrete log, and some lattice problems) can be based on worst-case assumptions via worst-case-to-average-case reductions. A desired characteristic...
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    on a pivot, and since quicksort is in-place and has lower overhead, tree sort has few advantages over quicksort. It has better worst case complexity when...
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    Merge sort (category Divide-and-conquer algorithms)
    the worst case, merge sort uses approximately 39% fewer comparisons than quicksort does in its average case, and in terms of moves, merge sort's worst case...
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    its worst performances, for a negative return during most of the 1930s for new and old stock market investors. For the decade, the Dow Jones average was...
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