The use of descriptive and summary statistics has an extensive history and, indeed, the simple tabulation of populations and of economic data was the first way in which the topic of statistics appeared.

In simple terms, descriptive statistics can be thought of as being just a straightforward presentation of facts, in which modeling decisions made by a data analyst have had minimal influence.

As a descriptive term, it usually refers to the simple fact of cultural diversity: it is generally applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, sometime at the organizational level, e. g. schools, businesses, neighbourhoods, cities, or nations.

Weinreich ( 1953: 47 ) defines simple words “ from the point of view of the bilinguals who perform the transfer, rather than that of the descriptive linguist.

As Hugh Macdonald points out in the New Grove ( 1980 ), " Strauss liked to use a simple but descriptive theme — for instance the three-note motif at the opening of Also sprach Zarathustra, or striding, vigorous arpeggios to represent the manly qualities of his heroes.

* theScribe LITE is a simple software application from MOG Solutions that allows to preview MXF files plus to change the MXF descriptive metadata

The framework is a simple and logical structure for classifying and organizing the descriptive representations of an enterprise.

Health Canada is also considering laws mandating plain packaging, in which legal tobacco product packaging would be black and white and labelled solely with simple unadorned text, as well as outlawing descriptive terms such as " Light " and " Mild ", which Health Canada argues are deceptive to consumers and encourage them to falsely believe that these brands of cigarettes are less likely to cause illness or addiction.

As in the film, No fitted himself with metal manual prostheses, but the book describes them as simple pincers ( apparently similar to those of Tee-Hee in Live and Let Die ), and judging by the lack of descriptive detail, they presumably lack the articulation of human hands.

This approach provides a simple and highly descriptive set of rules to evaluate distributed conditions and proves effective in the detection of errors.

" Wyoming " was the simple English transliteration of the Lenape Indian tribe's word for " large plains ", which was considered descriptive of the land but undesirable due to its distant origin in Pennsylvania.

For an intensive form, the first consonant and vowel of a ( descriptive ) adjective can be reduplicated ; a new consonant is added too, m, p, r, or s, but there is no simple rule for which one:

The number of Conservative groups, their lack of stability, and their tendency to be identified with local issues defy simple categorization.

China's complex political, ethnic and ideological mosaic, much less uniform beneath the surface than in the idealized story of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, resists simple categorization.

A categorization of science fiction into various subgenres can be problematic, because these subcategories are not simple pigeonholes.

However, they also rely on a more organic approach to their songwriting with live drums and percussion, together with guitars and samples, creating a complexly-layered and polyrhythmic blend of beats and diverse analogue sounds that defy simple categorization.

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There is no simple categorization of humanitarian crises.

The inability of contemporary critics to sum up Pisemsky in a more or less congruous manner, according to Anninsky, might be explained by the latter's peculiarity, for, " simple and unpretentious as author was, he defied categorization ".

Although many labels have been applied to his music, it defies simple genre categorization, including elements of old-time, folk, punk, medieval, gypsy and Native American music.

Learning time does not necessarily correlate with the number or complexity of rules ; some games, such as chess or Go, have simple rulesets while possessing profound strategies.

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Yet, chess and especially Go with its extremely simple deterministic rules, can still have an extremely large number of unpredictable moves.

The game of Go has simple rules that can be learned very quickly but, as with chess and similar board games, complex strategies may be deployed by experienced players.

Chess 4. 0 type programs won out for the simple reason that their programs played better chess.

It's a simple variant, where the goal is to lose the chess game, but with several conditions attached to the rules.

He started with ChipTest, a simple chess-playing chip, based on a design from Unix-inventor's Ken Thompson's Belle, and very different from the other chess-playing computer being developed at Carnegie Mellon, HiTech, which was developed by Hans Berliner and included 64 different chess chips for the move generator instead of the one in Hsu's series.

Due to his achievements in the chess world, mastery over the board and his relatively simple style of play he was nicknamed the " Human Chess Machine ".

On basic, current computer chess architecture, GNU Chess plays at senior master / weak international master strength ( 2500 + Elo on simple hardware-Intel Core 2 Duo ), without parallel processing, according to the IQ6 test suite.

While a simple material counting evaluation is not sufficient for decent play in chess, it is often the backbone of a chess evaluation function, when combined with more subtle considerations like isolated / doubled pawns, rooks on open files ( columns ), pawns in the center of the board and so on.

Playing chess on FICS requires connecting to the server either through a web-based applet on the FICS website or using a client program, which could be as simple as a telnet client, but is usually an interface designed specifically for playing Internet chess.

* Pathguy. com a simple Patrol chess program by Ed Friedlander

Learning time does not necessarily correlate with the number or complexity of rules ; some games, such as chess or Go, have simple rulesets while requiring profound strategies.

Syed was inspired by Garry Kasparov's defeat at the hands of the chess computer Deep Blue to design a new game which could be played with a standard chess set, would be difficult for computers to play well, but would have rules simple enough for his then four-year-old son Aamir to understand.

DragonSpeak allows users to develop interactivity into their dreams, ranging from a simple action like opening a door, to far more complex uses, such as a complete game of chess or laser-tag.

Its algorithms were quite simple evaluation functions, but it could examine half a billion chess positions per move in tournament games, which is sufficient to reach depth of 10 or 11 moves ahead in complex positions.

They also believed that chess could not be defined by a simple set of laws or principles, such as those laid out by the German Siegbert Tarrasch.

Yet, chess and especially Go with its extremely simple deterministic rules, can still have an extremely large number of unpredictable moves.

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