Science and Mathematics
- Criterion validity, in psychometrics, a measure of how well one variable or set of variables predicts an outcome
- Criterion-referenced test, translates a test score into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person
- Eisenstein's criterion, in mathematics, gives sufficient conditions for a polynomial to be irreducible over the rational numbers
- Euler's criterion, in number theory concerning primes
- Problem of the criterion, in epistemology, an issue regarding the starting point of knowledge
- Weyl's criterion, used in mathematics in the theory of diophantine approximation
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