As a result, the HMM states can perhaps be best thought of as representing the most dominant unique configurations of these hypothetical networks.
The risk and uncertainty are best thought of as representing a spectrum of unknown situations with which an analyst may be dealing, ranging from perfect knowledge of the likelihood of all the possible outcomes at one end (risk) to no knowledge of the likelihood of possible outcomes at the other (uncertainty).
In one use, the verb is used to relate us to a Fregean thought or proposition, a way of representing the world.
Models have been a tool of science at least since the 18th century and serve a variety of purposes from focusing abstract thoughts to representing scaled down version of things for study.
Since not only thoughts but everyday physical objects are quite capable of representing things, the fact that our thoughts manage to be about things need not cause any particular puzzlement.
2, 3 It is similar to patchy ischemic retinal whitening (PIRW), a transient early sign of central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) 2 thought to represent intracellular edema of overlying retinal intermediary neurones.
Because ET facets stretch the variance of the composite thought to represent the target construct into other dimensions, they also impose construct-unrelated variance on the composite.
During the Ming Dynasty (1368 1644) this epistemological split in Neo-Confucian philosophy manifested itself in the establishment of two divergent streams of thought, represented by the "realist" current of the School of the Structural Principle (Li xue 理學) on one side, and the "idealist" School of the Heart-Mind (Xin xue 心學) on the other.
A second school of thought, represented by the work of Paul Collier, has been influential because it challenged previously held assumptions that resource scarcity was the primary driver of conflict; in fact, abundance is strongly related to the presence of violent conflict.
