In practical statistical analysis, the terms are often used before one has chosen even a preliminary form of analysis: thus an initial objective might be to " choose an appropriate measure of central tendency ".

One critic states of psychologists that " Instead of replacing ' metaphysical ' terms such as ' desire ' and ' purpose ', they used it to legitimize them by giving them operational definitions ... the initial, quite radical operationalist ideas eventually came to serve as little more than a ' reassurance fetish ' ( Koch 1992 ) for mainstream methodological practice.

After initial resistance, the terms were eventually accepted.

Alternatively, the path integral formulation of quantum field theory represents the transition amplitude as a weighted sum of all possible histories of the system from the initial to the final state, in terms of either particles or fields.

The amount of energy extracted from nuclear fuel is called its burnup, which is expressed in terms of the heat energy produced per initial unit of fuel weight.

The essay then goes on to explain first utilizing the term " God " for the American audience to get and initial understanding of what he means by " panenthesism ," and then discusses the terms that Buddhism uses in place of " God " such as Dharmakaya, Buddha, and Tathagata.

The equation is most conveniently expressed in terms of the measured quantity N ( t ) rather than the constant initial value N < sub > o </ sub >.

Despite a period of instability known as the Battle of the Booksellers when the initial copyright terms under the Statute began to expire, the Statute of Anne remained in force until the Copyright Act 1842 repealed it.

Classical thermodynamics can consider irreversible processes, but its account in exact terms is restricted to variables that refer only to initial and final states of thermodynamic equilibrium, or to rates of input and output that do not change with time.

In the account in terms of equilibrium states of a system, descriptions of irreversible processes refer only to initial and final static equilibrium states ; rates of progress are not considered.

; Lambda calculus: A computation consists of an initial lambda expression ( or two if you want to separate the function and its input ) plus a finite sequence of lambda terms, each deduced from the preceding term by one application of Beta reduction.

Any finite number of initial terms of the Taylor series of a function is called a Taylor polynomial.

A transfer function ( also known as the system function or network function ) is a mathematical representation, in terms of spatial or temporal frequency, of the relation between the input and output of a linear time-invariant system with zero initial conditions and zero-point equilibrium.

Encompassed in these terms, especially the Auger yield which is related to the transition probability, is the quantum mechanical overlap of the initial and final state wave functions.

Unlike many other major civilizations where written law was held in honor and often attributed to divine origin, law in early China was viewed in purely secular terms and its initial appearance was greeted with hostility by Confucian thinkers as indicative of a serious moral decline, a violation of human morality, and even a disturbance of the total cosmic order.

Despite the initial mass of < sup > 1 </ sup > H being used as the natural unit for atomic weight, it was suggested by Wilhelm Ostwald that atomic weights would be best expressed in terms in units of 1 / 16 weight of oxygen.

By its terms, the Pope recalled his bull of dissolution, and, reserving all the rights of the Holy See, acknowledged the council as ecumenical on 15 December 1433 except for the initial unapproved sessions that contained canons which exalted conciliar authority above that of the pope.

The idea of using an initial property is to set up the problem in terms of some auxiliary category E, and then identify that what we want is to find an initial object of E. This has an advantage that the optimization — the sense that we are finding the most efficient solution — means something rigorous and is recognisable, rather like the attainment of a supremum.

The co-op system then was revised in involving four-month terms rather than the initial three-month terms.

The leading term in this power series is the solution of the exactly solvable problem, while further terms describe the deviation in the solution, due to the deviation from the initial problem.

In this example, would be the known solution to the exactly solvable initial problem and, ... represent the higher-order terms which may be found iteratively by some systematic procedure.

An approximate " perturbation solution " is obtained by truncating the series, usually by keeping only the first two terms, the initial solution and the " first-order " perturbation correction:

In initial work identifying leader behavior, Fleishman ( 1953 ) observed that subordinates perceived their supervisors ' behavior in terms of two broad categories referred to as consideration and initiating structure.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso (; born June 18, 1931 ), also known by his initials FHC (), was the 34th President of Brazil and served for two terms from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002.

The primary colors are specified in terms of their CIE 1931 color space chromaticity coordinates ( x, y ).

Whereas 78 percent of the articles in the 1931 volume of Journal of Physical Anthropology employed these or similar terms, only 36 percent did so in 1965 ( see African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955-1968 )), and just 28 percent did in 1996.

Hull served 11 terms in the United States House of Representatives ( 1907 – 1921 and 1923 – 1931 ) and authored the federal income tax laws of 1913 and 1916 and the inheritance tax of 1916.

From 1903 to 1907, Hull served as a local judge ; later he was elected to the United States House of Representatives where he served 11 terms ( 1907 – 1921 and 1923 – 1931 ) totaling 22 years.

In 1931 / 32, Pomeranian historian Adolf Hofmeister was the first to establish, through comparison of the events reported by the different chronicles, that all these terms describe the same place, which is at or near the modern town of Wolin.

The film was a remake of a 1932 film based on the book Tarzan of the Apes, originally made under a rights agreement from 1931, and the court held that MGM complied with the terms of the 1931 agreement as the new film was substantially similar to the old film.

In 1931, Turner organized the Virginia Conference of College Science Teachers in 1931, and served as president of that group for two terms.

The terms " diagonal lemma " or " fixed point " do not appear in Kurt Gödel's epochal 1931 article, or in Tarski ( 1936 ).

He also served two terms representing in the United States House of Representatives, from 1927 to 1931.

Roman Lazaro served as municipal president for three terms ( 1919 – 1922, 1931 – 1934, 1938 – 1941 ), Felipe Belarmino served for three consecutive terms ( 1923 – 1925, 1926 – 1928, 1929 – 1931 ) and again in 1943, Don Eduardo A. Barretto from 1935-1937.

She trained at RADA, where she stayed for two terms and made her first film appearance in The Love Race ( 1931 ), the next year making Her First Affaire, a film her mother originally tested for.

After retiring from Yale, Cross was elected governor of Connecticut as a Democrat in 1930 and served as Governor for four two-year terms, from 1931 to 1939.

The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953 when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931.

He was later elected to the Tennessee State Senate and subsequently elected by the General Assembly to a total five terms as State Treasurer ( 1919 – 1927 and 1931 – 1933 ).

Between 1931 and 1933 authorities arrested 107 TCP members, who were sentenced to terms up to fifteen years.

Churchill's brief 1945 " Caretaker Government " also called itself a National Government and in terms of party composition was very similar to the 1931 – 1940 entity.

( This was not done in 1899 or 1914 because the original terms of sovereignty under the British North America Act — amended by the Statute of Westminster in 1931 — did not include authority to deploy troops outside Canadian territory.

The 1931 season was average in terms of tropical cyclone formation, but below average in number of hurricanes.