equal weighting

equal weighting

a taxonomic procedure where all characters are regarded as of equal importance. The procedure is commonly used in NUMERICAL TAXONOMY.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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Most of us are familiar with market-cap weighting, where the largest companies receive the largest share, and even equal weighting, which is self-explanatory.
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It thus took some four decades to revive equal weighting, which under today's low-commission and computerized world, handily outperforms market-cap indexing "without a material increase in risk," the authors say.
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