This lead to conversations about data collection, measurement, central tendencies, and averages.
It takes as its point of departure two central tendencies in current nuclear strategy: mutual assured destruction (MAD) and nuclear utilization target selections (NUTS).
Existing forest planning models are not well suited to dealing with this uncertainty because they produce deterministic projections based on central tendencies of these drivers.
Conference - "Defining the Age: Daniel Bell and His Time" The distinguished sociologist Daniel Bell had a singular ability to put his finger on the central tendencies of America and the West in the second half of the twentieth century.
The central tendencies and recurrent debates since the mid-19th century have engaged universalist versus particularist perspectives, scientific versus humanistic perspectives, and the explanatory power of biology (nature) versus that of culture (nurture).
Except under unusually favorable circumstances, one can infer from functions obtained by averaging across the subjects neither the form of the function that describes the behavior of the individual subject nor the central tendencies of descriptive parameter values.
The decision maker specifies an output quantile set representing a section of the distribution of the metric, e.g., downside or upside risks or central tendencies, as the basis for comparison.
The measure of central tendencies of travel time distribution is unable to explain the traveler's experience.
Central tendencies were compared using Fisher's exact test, Student's t test, Wilcoxon rank-sum, and Kruskal-Wallis test where appropriate.
We also explored the concept of a mutation rate, which provided the opportunity to discuss central tendencies and dispersion about a mean.
As such, close-ended questions with multiple choice or Likert scale formats were used to measure the central tendencies of the participants, followed by open-ended questions exploring the reasons behind their opinions.
