Huber

Hide-owning ancestor

Huber is a German surname meaning "one who owns a hide of land"—a hide being an old unit of farmland sufficient to support a family.

Common in German-speaking regions and among German-American families: The Hubers have farmed this land for generations.

In statistics, the Huber loss function is a method for robust regression that reduces sensitivity to outliers.

surname

genealogy

Study of family descent

lineage · clan · kinship · descent · bloodline · roots · patronymic · German · Swiss · Austrian

precision

outlier

Distant data point

threshold · quadratic · linear · optimization · machine learning · residual · data science · smoothing · statistician

engineering

stress

Pressure, mental or vocal

mechanical engineering · structural analysis · elasticity · deformation · tensor · load bearing

Opposites
name type

Huberfirst name

Personal name, not surname

given name · forename · Christian name · personal name · baptismal name

Phrases
Family

Hubert

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G