It is one that most try to avoid, as long as they can see an alternative approach to the problem.

An alternative approach to the comparison of Buddhist thought with Western philosophy is to use the concept of the Middle Way in Buddhism as a critical tool for the assessment of Western philosophies.

In 1971 Shirley McNaughton started a pioneer program at the Ontario Crippled Children ’ s Centre ( OCCC ), aimed to children with cerebral palsy, from the approach of augmentative and alternative communication ( AAC ).

Calvinism ( also called Reformed tradition, or the Reformed faith, and sometimes Reformed theology ) is a type of Protestant theological system and an alternative approach to the Christian life.

An alternative term, expressing an ideological ( sometimes religious ) approach aimed at distancing oneself from the source of the count, is למניינם ( according to their count ).

See also parsing expression grammar as an alternative approach to grammar and parser.

An alternative approach, which preceded the ERM, is using the Relational model and dependencies ( mathematical relationships ) among data to normalize the database, i. e., to define the (" optimal ") relations ( data record or tupple types ) in the database.

Propensity probability is an alternative physicalist approach.

Limited disclosure, is an alternative approach where full details of the vulnerability are provided to a restricted community of developers and vendors while the public is only informed of a potential security issue.

With a table of appropriate size, this method is likely to be much faster than any alternative approach ( such as sorting the file and comparing all consecutive pairs ).

Literate programming is an approach to programming introduced by Donald Knuth as an alternative to the structured programming paradigm of the 1970s.

An alternative, humanistic approach poses the question " What is the meaning of my life?

also abandoned the genre in favor of a radio friendly alternative rock approach.

An alternative approach defines a polytope as a set of points that admits a simplicial decomposition.

A typical philosophical text presents a philosophical problem, summarizes and critiques various alternative approaches to solving it, presents its own approach, and then argues in favour of that approach.

Although the practicality of this approach to gene therapy has yet to be proven, some aspects of it could be less problematic than the alternative viral-based delivery of therapeutic genes.

Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo used an agent-based modelling approach to simulate the promotion of employees and tested alternative strategies.

An alternative approach was developed in 1929 by Friedrich Hund and Robert S. Mulliken, in which electrons are described by mathematical functions delocalized over an entire molecule.

With the approach of the early ' 90s and Rush's characteristic sound still intact, the band transformed their style once again to harmonize with the alternative rock movement.

The OpenRT project includes a highly optimized software core for ray tracing along with an OpenGL-like API in order to offer an alternative to the current rasterisation based approach for interactive 3D graphics.

The second Sigal responsum called for a takkanah, or rabbinical edict, " that would serve as a halakhic ERA ," overruling all non-egalitarian provisions in law or, in the alternative, a new approach to halakhic interpretation independent of legal precedents.

An alternative approach is to explore the ultranarrow optical transitions of atoms held in an optical lattice.

Within a given approach, statistical theory gives ways of comparing statistical procedures ; it can find a best possible procedure within a given context for given statistical problems, or can provide guidance on the choice between alternative procedures.

An alternative to including the risk in the discount rate is to use the risk free rate, but multiply the future cash flows by the estimated probability that they will occur ( the success rate ).

" He says " the makeup of a gene pool a human population's total reservoir of alternative genes causally affects the probability of any particular ideology being adopted.

An alternative account of probability emphasizes the role of prediction – predicting future observations on the basis of past observations, not on unobservable parameters.

Nowadays alternative approaches for axiomatization of probability theory exist ; see “ Algebra of random variables ”, for example.

The article probability interpretations outlines several alternative views of what " probability " means and how it should be interpreted.

Whether it fits significantly better and should thus be preferred is determined by deriving the probability or p-value of the difference D. Where the null hypothesis represents a special case of the alternative hypothesis, the probability distribution of the test statistic is approximately a chi-squared distribution with degrees of freedom equal to df2 − df1.

For example: if the null model has 1 free parameter and a log-likelihood of − 8024 and the alternative model has 3 degrees of freedom and a LL of − 8012, then the probability of this difference is that of chi-squared value of + 2 ·( 8024 − 8012 ) = 24 with 3 − 1 = 2 degrees of freedom.

There is at least one alternative axiomatization of probability theory by means of expectations on C-star algebras of random variables.

In this work, he described the known results in probability theory and in enumeration, often providing alternative proofs of known results.

In the second book, Warrant and Proper Function, he introduces the notion of warrant as an alternative to justification and discusses topics like self-knowledge, memories, perception, and probability.

Statistical significance indicates the probability that an alignment of a given quality could arise by chance, but does not indicate how much superior a given alignment is to alternative alignments of the same sequences.

An alternative ( but nevertheless related ) statistical hypothesis testing framework is the Neyman – Pearson frequentist school which requires both a null and an alternative hypothesis to be defined and investigates the repeat sampling properties of the procedure, i. e. the probability that a decision to reject the null hypothesis will be made when it is in fact true and should not have been rejected ( this is called a " false positive " or Type I error ) and the probability that a decision will be made to accept the null hypothesis when it is in fact false ( Type II error ).

Modern practitioners stress the importance of alternative and plural futures, rather than one monolithic future, and the limitations of prediction and probability, versus the creation of possible and preferable futures.

Modern practitioners stress the importance of alternative and plural futures, rather than one monolithic future, and the limitations of prediction and probability, versus the creation of possible and preferable futures.

( i ) The upward slope implies that the person feels that more is better: a larger amount received yields greater utility, and for risky bets the person would prefer a bet which is first-order stochastically dominant over an alternative bet ( that is, if the probability mass of the second bet is pushed to the right to form the first bet, then the first bet is preferred ).

( ii ) The concavity of the utility function implies that the person is risk averse: a sure amount would always be preferred over a risky bet having the same expected value ; moreover, for risky bets the person would prefer a bet which is a mean-preserving contraction of an alternative bet ( that is, if some of the probability mass of the first bet is spread out without altering the mean to form the second bet, then the first bet is preferred ).

* In statistical hypothesis testing, a test is said to be unbiased when the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis is less than or equal to the significance level when the null hypothesis is true, and the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis is greater than or equal to the significance level when the alternative hypothesis is true,

Of these two mechanisms, Stokes diapir was favoured for many years in the absence of a reasonable alternative.

Sigmund Freud, the novelist Marjorie Bowen, and several 20th-century celebrities found the thesis persuasive, and Oxford soon overtook Bacon as the favoured alternative candidate to Shakespeare, though academic Shakespeareans mostly ridiculed or ignored the claims.

What distinguishes abduction from the other forms of reasoning is an attempt to favour one conclusion above others, by attempting to falsify alternative explanations or by demonstrating the likelihood of the favoured conclusion, given a set of more or less disputable assumptions.

The name chosen for the new studio space was favoured within the company because it implied an alternative theatre, but also because it is a quotation from Hamlet.

Where irrigation is inappropriate or impractical, dry landscaping is an ecological alternative favoured by the Commission ’ s horticulturists, as is the case in Iraq.

This need to see different events from alternative perspectives ( especially from the perspectives of her suspects ) meant that she increasingly favoured third-person narration throughout her career.

FUNCINPEC was formed, with the encouragement of ASEAN states, in order to provide an alternative resistance against the Vietnamese to that offered by the Khmer Rouge, who were still holding out in the remote north-west and west of the country, and to the loose organisation of the KPNLF, who were broadly favoured by the US and western powers in general.

An alternative hypothesis favoured by some linguists is that Albanian is descended from Thracian.

He favoured reciprocity with the United States as an alternative.

As used by Shell, and as favoured by a number of the academics, two scenarios should be complementary ; the reason being that this helps avoid managers ' choosing ' just one, ' preferred ', scenario-and lapsing once more into single-track forecasting ( negating the benefits of using ' alternative ' scenarios to allow for alternative, uncertain futures ).

In the United Kingdom, the city regional agenda began to be seen as an alternative to the Regional Assemblies in England that were favoured as a partial answer to the West Lothian question but rejected in a referendum by voters in North East England in November 2004.

A coincidence, however, may be defined optimally as ' an event that provides support for an alternative to a currently favoured causal theory, but not necessarily enough support to accept that alternative in light of its low prior probability.

The status quo, which translated into their high standard of life, was generally favoured over any alternative.

Further north are the gorges and related areas around Karijini National Park and the inland Pilbara mines, which are of interest to some, but the alternative North West Coastal Highway between Perth and Port Hedland offers access to the Indian Ocean and its many natural attractions and is hence favoured by tourists.

An alternative favoured by some is " Coventre " – derived from the words " Coven " ( old variation of " Convent ") and " tre " ( Celtic: " settlement " or " town "), giving rise to " Convent Town ".

Within the range there is a central core of 3 or 4 models favoured by teachers and pupils alike: the entry level B12 ( although the B10 is an increasingly popular alternative ), the E11 as an intermediate wooden model and the R13 or RC as a professional-standard instrument.

However this was not favoured by most Ugandans of other tribes and amongst some Buganda educated elite who formed an alternative party, the Democratic Party ( Uganda ) to aspire for national unity.

Between 1830 and 1837 an alternative route was surveyed by Francis Giles, but Stephenson's plans were favoured with construction work starting in May 1838 and allocated to three different contractors.