{"id":9361,"date":"2019-05-22T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/vector\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:06","slug":"vector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/vector\/","title":{"rendered":"Vector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In statistics, a set of ordered values in a column (or row) of a matrix, or a matrix with only one column or row. In mathematics and physics, it includes a quantity for which the magnitude and direction must be stated. Examples of vector quantities are force and velocity, the latter being different from speed in that it has a direction as well as a magnitude. Speed, only having magnitude, is referred to as a scalar quantity. In medicine, a vector is a disease-carrying agent such as an insect or tic that transmits parasites from one host to another<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>. See Design matrix, Vector field, Velocity<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In statistics, a set of ordered values in a column (or row) of a matrix, or a matrix with only one column or row. In mathematics and physics, it includes a quantity for which the magnitude and direction must be stated. Examples of vector quantities are force and velocity, the latter being different from speed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/vector\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vector&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}