Wiktionary seems to have a decent definition. It boils down to listing all possible outcomes and ordering them according to your preferences. The words “affine transformation” reflect the fact that all possible ways to assign numbers to outcomes which result in the same ordering are equivalent.
Wiktionary seems to have a decent definition. It boils down to listing all possible outcomes and ordering them according to your preferences. The words “affine transformation” reflect the fact that all possible ways to assign numbers to outcomes which result in the same ordering are equivalent.