Dominance

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Dominance may refer to several different concepts:

• Coercion
• Power (sociology)
• State power
• Dominance (biology) in biology and anthropology is the state of having high social status relative to other individuals, who react submissively to dominant individuals.
• Domination and submission (BDSM) or domination is a term used for a form of human sexuality also referred to in the acronym BDSM.
• Dominance relationship in genetics refers a property of genes that help to determine whether an offspring will inherit a characteristic from the father, the mother, or some blend of both.
• Dominance (game theory) in game theory is a property had by strategies that makes one strategy a better choice than another.
• Dominance (economics) is a measure of the firms' share distribution (of production, sales, capacity or reserves) in a market or industry.
• The term stochastic dominance is used in decision theory to refer to situations where one lottery (a probability distribution over outcomes) can be ranked as superior to another, with only limited knowledge of preferences.
• In decision theory, one decision rule dominates another if it always achieves lower risk.