Surrogate - Science and Technology

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  • Surrogate model, used in engineering design
  • Surrogate endpoint, a measure of effect in clinical trials
  • Surrogate key, a unique database identification key
  • Surrogate proxy, a type of server network setup
  • Surrogate character, any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
  • Surrogate data testing, a technique for identifying possible nonlinearity in data.

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