Lasso (disambiguation)

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Lasso may refer to:

  • Lasso, a loop of rope that is designed to be thrown around a target and tighten when pulled.
  • The trade name of the herbicide Alachlor.
  • Lasso programming language, an internet application programming language / middleware server from OmniPilot.
  • Orlando di Lasso, composer of late Renaissance music.
  • A statistical technique for L1-norm regularization. It was proposed by [Tibshirani 1996, J. Royal Statist. Soc. B] [1]. Related methods include basis pursuit [Chen, Donoho and Saunders 1997, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing]
  • In computer science, a tool mainly used in graphics editors for performing freehand selection.