heaping

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heap

(hēp)

1. A group of things placed or thrown, one on top of the other: a heap of dirty rags lying in the corner.

2. often heaps Informal A great deal; a lot: We have heaps of homework tonight.

3. Slang An old or run-down car.

tr.v. heaped, heap·ing, heaps

1. To put or throw in a pile: heaped the clothes on the bed.

2. To fill completely or to overflowing: heap a plate with vegetables.

3. To bestow in abundance or lavishly: heaped praise on the rescuers.

[Middle English, from Old English hēap.]

Synonyms: heap, mound, pile¹, stack
These nouns denote a group or collection of things lying one on top of the other: a heap of old newspapers; a mound of boulders; a pile of boxes; a stack of firewood.

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heaping

(ˈhiːpɪŋ)

adj

US and Canadian (of a spoonful) heaped

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"Yes, my friend, this is a reservoir in which Nature has been heaping up her wealth for centuries!

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In this paper, we discuss the appropriateness of this "smoothness assumption" in the presence of heaping.

For a wide variety of reasons, heaping is common in many types of data.

2011) identified one case in which heaping led to biased estimates in a RD design, it left several important gaps in the literature.

We introduce non-random heaping by having the expected value of [Y.sub.i] vary across two data types, heaped and non-heaped, where heaped types have [R.sub.i] randomly drawn from {-100, -90, ..., 90, 100} and non-heaped types have [R.sub.i] randomly drawn from {-100, -99, ..., 99, 100}.

To explore how non-random heaping can impair estimation in settings beyond our simple DGP, we examine several alternative DGPs which allow the heaped and non-heaped types to have different means, different slopes, and different treatment effects.

Heaping-induced bias in regression-discontinuity designs

This heaping results from the upward motion of particles within the material to the top of the pile.

The researchers found that for grains smaller than 1 millimeter in diameter, the amount of heaping decreases rapidly when air pressure is reduced below 1 percent of atmospheric pressure.