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In psychoanalysis, identification is the process by which a person takes on the traits, attitudes, or roles of another and makes them part of the self. Freud's 1921 Group psychology and the analysis of the ego gave the concept its fullest early statement, describing identification as the earliest emotional tie to another person and the mechanism by which a child models itself on a parent and a crowd binds itself to a leader. The referent here is an inner psychological process that shapes personality, and it has nothing to do with recovering a model's parameters from data or fitting an equation to a machine's behavior.[1]
In econometrics, identification asks whether the unknown structural parameters of a model can be recovered uniquely from the data, or whether many different parameter values would fit the observations equally well. Working's 1927 What do statistical 'demand curves' show? exposed the core difficulty, showing that observed prices and quantities trace out neither the demand curve nor the supply curve on its own because both shift at once. Koopmans's 1949 Identification problems in economic model construction named the problem and set out formally when a system's parameters are and are not identified. This referent is a property of a model and its data, not a psychological tie between people or the fitting of a control model to a machine.[2][3]
In control and systems engineering, system identification is the building of a mathematical model of a dynamical system from measured records of its inputs and outputs. Zadeh's 1956 On the identification problem posed the task of picking, from a class of candidate systems, the one whose response matches the observed input-output behavior, and Astrom and Eykhoff's 1971 survey consolidated the estimation methods that fit such models to data. The referent is a procedure for modeling a physical or engineered process, distinct from an inner psychological tie and from the abstract question of whether an economic model's parameters are unique.[4][5]
The degree to which a person defines themselves by their membership in an organization, feeling at one with it and taking its successes and failures as their own. Ashforth and Mael's 1989 Social Identity Theory and the Organization imported social identity theory into management, and Mael and Ashforth's 1992 study of alumni measured this belonging as a self-concept variable. Here the word names a felt attachment held by an individual toward a group, measured on a questionnaire, and it has nothing to do with whether a model's parameters can be recovered, with a child modeling itself on a parent, or with naming the source of a fingerprint.[6][7]
The task of determining whether a trace, such as a fingerprint, tool mark, or DNA sample, came from a particular person or object, ideally to the exclusion of all others. Saks and Koehler's 2005 The Coming Paradigm Shift in Forensic Identification Science examined the claim that such traces can be individualized to a single source and pressed for a probabilistic footing. Here the word names an evidentiary judgment about the origin of a physical mark, expressed as a probability of a match, and it does not refer to feeling part of a group, to recovering model parameters, or to shaping one mind on another.[8]
In rhetoric, identification refers to persuasion through shared interests that make speaker and audience feel consubstantial. This meaning comes from Burke (1950) in A rhetoric of motives.[9]
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