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docs: v.class.html fix typo, plus minor edit
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dhdeangelis committed Nov 26, 2024
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are those of the number of breaks asked for.

<p>The <em>discont</em> algorithm systematically searches discontinuities
in the slope of the cumulated frequencies curve, by approximating this
in the slope of the cumulative frequencies curve, by approximating this
curve through straight line segments whose vertices define the class
breaks. The first approximation is a straight line which links the two
end nodes of the curve. This line is then replaced by a two-segmented
polyline whose central node is the point on the curve which is farthest
from the preceding straight line. The point on the curve furthest from
this new polyline is then chosen as a new node to create break up one of
the two preceding segments, and so forth. The problem of the difference
in terms of units between the two axes is solved by rescaling both
amplitudes to an interval between 0 and 1. In the original algorithm,
the process is stopped when the difference between the slopes of the two
new segments is no longer significant (alpha = 0.05). As the slope is
the ratio between the frequency and the amplitude of the corresponding
the two preceding segments, and so forth.

<p>The problem of the difference in terms of units between the two axes
is solved by rescaling both amplitudes to an interval between 0 and 1.
In the original algorithm, the process is stopped when the difference between
the slopes of the two new segments is no longer significant (alpha = 0.05). As
the slope is the ratio between the frequency and the amplitude of the corresponding
interval, i.e. its density, this effectively tests whether the frequencies
of the two newly proposed classes are different from those obtained by
simply distributing the sum of their frequencies amongst them in proportion
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