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practical and statistical
Bioinformatics now entails the creation and advancement of databases, algorithms, computational and statistical techniques and theory to solve formal and practical problems arising from the management and analysis of biological data.
With ENIAC in mind, he realized that the availability of computers made such statistical methods very practical.
Without analyzing the statistical uncertainty of a given 100-year flood, scientists and engineers can decrease the uncertainty by using two practical rules.
In other words, in designing the survey instrument, the researcher must somehow find a satisfactory " bridge " of meaning between the logical and practical requirements of the survey statistician, a statistical classification scheme, the awareness of respondents and the processors of the raw data.
Point alternative hypotheses occur when the hypothesis test is framed so that the population distribution under the alternative hypothesis is a fully defined distribution, with no unknown parameters ; such hypotheses are usually of no practical interest but are fundamental to theoretical considerations of statistical inference and are the basis of the Neyman – Pearson lemma.
Not only did he deal with practical problems but he worked on statistical theory, as well as on problems in genetics but he became interested in the characterisation of intelligence.
Research in this area has largely stalled ; reference 3 below showed that, in general, securing statistical databases was an impossible aim: if they were open to legitimate use, they were also open to abuse ; and if they were restricted so tightly as to be incapable of abuse, they would then be useless for practical statistical purposes.
The FHWA study has also been criticized as containing critical methodological and analytical flaws and failing to explain an increase in fatalities associated with red light camera use :(…) the authors spotlight the statistical difficulties of including the cost of fatalities, while ignoring the practical implications of such events (…) assuming that each angle injury crash had a societal cost of $ 64, 468, when in fact the cost was $ 82, 816 before camera use and $ 100, 176 after camera use (…)
Allometry is a well-known study, particularly in statistical shape analysis for its theoretical developments, as well as in biology for practical applications to the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism's body.
Another practical issue concerns a general lack of availability of detailed failure data and not consistent filtering of failure ( feedback ) data or ingoring statistical errors, which are very high for rare events ( like reliability related failures ).
In more practical terms neural networks are non-linear statistical data modeling or decision making tools.
* The study and teaching of statistics, statistical theory, and statistical methods and their use in practical applications and research.
In practical cases, the distribution and target are unknown ; statistical estimates are used.

practical and analysis
It was " intended to afford a medium for the presentation and analysis of any and all questions of interest or importance in pure and applied Mathematics, embracing especially all new and interesting discoveries in theoretical and practical astronomy, mechanical philosophy, and engineering ".
Network analysis have many practical applications, for example, to model and analyze traffic networks.
The advent of the Age of Enlightenment provided an intellectual framework which welcomed the practical application of the growing body of scientific knowledge — a factor evidenced in the systematic development of the steam engine, guided by scientific analysis, and the development of the political and sociological analyses, culminating in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.
The practical implementation of multivariate statistics to a particular problem may involve several types of univariate and multivariate analysis in order to understand the relationships between variables and their relevance to the actual problem being studied.
Numerical analysis continues this long tradition of practical mathematical calculations.
Synthetic organic chemistry is an applied science as it borders engineering, the " design, analysis, and / or construction of works for practical purposes ".
* William Pugh, 1991, " The Omega test: a fast and practical integer programming algorithm for dependence analysis ,".
Although the concept of conductance is often used in circuit analysis, practical resistors are always specified in terms of their resistance ( ohms ) rather than conductance.
Often however, a pessimistic analysis may be too pessimistic, so an analysis that gets closer to the real value but may be optimistic ( perhaps with some known low probability of failure ) can be a much more practical approach.
Early efforts in analysing the stability included both theoretical analysis and practical measurements.
According to Stollznow ( 2010 ), " NLP also involves fringe discourse analysis and " practical " guidelines for " improved " communication.
Circuit analysis using electric elements is useful for understanding many practical electrical networks using components.
However, transformer, capacitance and inductance are normally retained in analysis because they are the ideal properties of the basic physical components transformer, inductor and capacitor whereas a practical gyrator must be constructed as an active circuit.
In his presidential address to the British Association in 1871, Lord Kelvin stated his belief that the application of the prismatic analysis of light to solar and stellar chemistry had never been suggested directly or indirectly by anyone else when Stokes taught it to him at Cambridge University some time prior to the summer of 1852, and he set forth the conclusions, theoretical and practical, which he learnt from Stokes at that time, and which he afterwards gave regularly in his public lectures at Glasgow. Kirchhoff These statements, containing as they do the physical basis on which spectroscopy rests, and the way in which it is applicable to the identification of substances existing in the sun and stars, make it appear that Stokes anticipated Kirchhoff by at least seven or eight years.
What was novel in Maistre's writings was not his enthusiastic defense of monarchical and religious authority per se, but rather his arguments concerning the practical need for ultimate authority to lie with an individual capable of decisive action, as well as his analysis of the social foundations of that authority's legitimacy.
The varying types of comparisons comprising the analysis of governance in scholastic and practical discussion can cause the meaning of " good governance " to vary greatly from practitioner to practitioner.
In regression analysis and Analysis of Variance, there is an extensive theory, and practical strategies, for improving the power based on optimally setting the values of the independent variables in the model.
Around the English-speaking world, educators began to realize the need to “ guard against our prejudice of thinking of print as the only real medium that the English teacher has a stake in .” A whole generation of educators began to not only acknowledge film and television as new, legitimate forms of expression and communication, but also explored practical ways to promote serious inquiry and analysis —- in higher education, in the family, in schools and in society.
The skin effect has practical consequences in the analysis and design of radio-frequency and microwave circuits, transmission lines ( or waveguides ), and antennas.
Heinz College focuses on the application of quantitative analysis, statistics, economics, operations research, decision science, and information technology to tackle public sector problems in a practical manner.
In the years that followed he developed the concepts of physical contradictions, SuField analysis ( structural substance-field analysis ), standard solutions, several laws of technical systems evolution, and numerous other theoretical and practical approaches.

practical and terms
The practical operational problem of lexicostatistics is the establishment of a basic list of items of meaning against which the particular forms or terms of languages can be matched as the medium of comparison.
Some mediums speak in practical, down-to-earth terms, while others may stress the spiritual.
In practical terms, however, since most of us are spontaneously self-centered, Buddhism encourages us to focus love and compassion on others, and thus can be characterized as " altruistic.
In practical terms, the ampere is a measure of the amount of electric charge passing a point in an electric circuit per unit time with 6. 241 × 10 < sup > 18 </ sup > electrons, or one coulomb per second constituting one ampere.
The practical definition may lead to confusion with the definition of a coulomb ( i. e., 1 amp-second ), but in practical terms this means that measures of a constant current ( e. g., the nominal flow of charge per second through a simple circuit ) will be defined in amperes ( e. g., " a 20 mA circuit ") and the flow of charge through a circuit over a period of time will be defined in coulombs ( e. g., " a variable-current circuit that flows a total of 10 coulombs over 5 seconds ").
" In practical terms, the most important law in the code may well be the very first: " We enjoin, what is most necessary, that each man keep carefully his oath and his pledge ," which expresses a fundamental tenet of Anglo-Saxon law.
Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.
In practical terms, this is generally possible only with securities and financial products that can be traded electronically, and even then, when each leg of the trade is executed the prices in the market may have moved.
The book's popularity had the effect of perpetuating many of these terms as part of the Standard English lexicon, even though they have long ceased to have any practical application.
Even in their original context of medieval venery, the terms were of the nature of kennings, intended as a mark of erudition of the gentlemen able to use them correctly rather than for practical communication.
Although attempts to abolish slavery failed by narrow margins in the legislature, in practical terms, the state had mostly ended the practice.
In practical terms, the equivalence of inertial reference frames means that scientists within a box moving uniformly cannot determine their absolute velocity by any experiment ( otherwise the differences would set up an absolute standard reference frame ).
The Vertebrata as a subphylum comprises such a small proportion of the Metazoa that to speak of the kingdom Animalia in terms of " Vertebrata " and " Invertebrata " would be about as practical as classifying animals into mayflies and non-mayflies, or transport into rowing boats and non-rowing boats.
In practical terms that means for an older standard definition TV set the ideal viewing distance was about 8 times the height ( not diagonal ) of the screen away.
This is to relay the authoritative nature of the Oral Law as authoritative in practical terms, as the traditions of the Oral Law are considered as the necessary basis for the interpretation, and often for the reading, of the Written Law.
In practical terms this means moose are more vulnerable in areas where wolf or bear populations were decimated in the past but are now rebounding.
It is believed that in practical terms the victory at Cedynia sealed Western Pomerania's fate as Mieszko ' dependency.
In practical terms, the defence will be more likely to raise the issue of mental incapacity to negate or minimise criminal liability.
In the other four de jure socialist states existing today — China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam — the ruling Parties hold Marxism – Leninism as their official ideology, although they give it different interpretations in terms of practical policy.
In practical terms, each additional user increases the total system load, leading to busy signals, the inability to get a dial tone, and poor customer support.
In practical terms, this means that one can set the zero of and anywhere one likes.
The domain of rhetoric is civic affairs and practical decision making in civic affairs, not theoretical considerations of operational definitions of terms and clarification of thought – these, for him, are in the domain of dialectic.
Each quatrain is accompanied with Persian text, a glossary of terms, Yoganada's spiritual interpretation, and practical interpretation.

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