Sentence examples for quantitative concept from inspiring English sources
The concept of hemeroby, which describes the degree of human disturbance on ecosystems, was used as a qualitative complement to the quantitative concept of biodiversity.
Based on recent work, I will give a nontechnical brief review of a powerful quantitative concept in biology, adaptive landscape, initially proposed by S. Wright over 70 years ago, reintroduced by one of the founders of molecular biology and by others in different biological contexts, but apparently forgotten by modern biologists for many years.
Such a quantitative concept would be an extraordinarily useful tool, and it would be a useful successor to our ordinary, somewhat scattered notions of confirmation and induction.
Hempel (1945) took the lead in attempting to explicate the qualitative concept while Carnap (1950 , 1952 concentrated on the quantitative concept.
Carnap sets as his task the development of a quantitative concept of probability that will clarify and explicate these widespread convictions.
On the other hand, the quantitative concept is employed in making numerical judgements about how much support a hypothesis derives from a given piece of evidence (e.g,. 'Hypothesis H is confirmed by evidence E to degree R').[19] Formal theories attempting to explicate each of these notions were developed.
Students need to develop a broad set of skills to approach scientific phenomena quantitatively (NRC, 2003), as well as to apply basic quantitative concepts in their daily lives (Kutner et al., 2007).
There is no better English-language explicator of complex quantitative concepts than Steven Strogatz.
The quantitative concepts and techniques covered in class are also relevant to appied sciences and industry.
No specific undergraduate major or courses are required for admission, but experience with analytic and quantitative concepts is important.
Many of the quantitative concepts and skills covered in ONEXYS are drawn directly from Yale's introductory math courses and placement exams, and are utilized across disciplines in the freshman year curriculum ranging from economics to chemistry to political science.
