Communicating and understanding this world requires the active engagement of our imaginations to dream up robust metaphors, analogies and visualisations.
JRR Tolkien said, in a robust and fusty analogy, that fairytales were like the furniture in the nursery - it was not that the furniture had originally been made for children: it had once been for adults and was consigned to the nursery only when the adults grew tired of it and it became unfashionable.
Or, how robust is argument-by-analogy? Anim Welfare 10, S103 118 (2001).
A stage in-between what Steinle calls "exploratory experimentation" and robust theory, I argue that analogy encouraged research to substantiate why the likenesses should outweigh the differences (or vice versa) when evaluating results and designing experiments.
This paper is to develop a robust estimation method of combining analogy with random weighting method for the ( {mathcal{G}}_I^0 ) model, which has the good properties of unbiased, the small mean-squared error and its ability to resist contamination.
In this paper, we present the expectation-maximization robust soft independent modeling of class analogy approach (EM-S-SIMCA) based on the recently introduced spherical SIMCA method.
This alternative form of the analogy allows one to obtain more robust results when applied to perturbed analytical flow models and experimental data.
By analogy with the standard CTD, the robust CTD can be defined as (19).
With its liquids (both surface and subsurface) and robust nitrogen atmosphere, Titan's methane cycle is viewed as an analogy to Earth's water cycle, although at a much lower temperature.
Thus, in our analogy of the three wise monkeys, the centromere coordinates proper microtubule attachment (see no error), robust sister-chromatid cohesion (hear no break) and early S-phase replication (speak no delay) at the same chromosome site (Fig 1B).
