What event marked the beginning of the US Civil War? The main cause of the Civil War has been debated for years. The first military action was Confederate forces attacking Union Fort Sumter.
1 Lift Charts. 2  The lift curve is a popular technique in direct marketing. 3  The input required to construct a lift curve is a validation dataset that has been scored by appending to each case the estimated probability that it will belong to a given class.
Various disciplines within mathematics have given the term different meanings depending on the area of study, so the precise meaning depends on context. However, many of these meanings are special instances of the definition which follows. A curve is a topological space which is locally homeomorphic to a line. In everyday language, this means that a curve is a set of points which, near each of its points, looks like a line, up to a deformation. A simple example of a curve is the parabola, shown to the right.