First, they provided new tools for analyzing complex systems by means of extensive calculations or direct simulation.
Armed with newly powerful tools for analyzing data, economists have dug into real-world matters and tried to understand human behavior.
Engle's methods and the ARCH model led to a proliferation of tools for analyzing stocks and enabled economists to make more accurate forecasts.
Game theory, branch of applied mathematics that provides tools for analyzing situations in which parties, called players, make decisions that are interdependent.
Allan M. Malz, head of research at RiskMetrics, a financial and software company in New York, said Professor Engle's methods had spawned hundreds of new tools for analyzing stocks.
And while the Government's Human Genome Project will soon have the whole kit and caboodle, Dr. Venter said Celera had a more accurate sequence and more powerful tools for analyzing the data.
Celera is, after all, selling a service: tools for analyzing DNA.
Until now, Illumina has been stunningly successful at selling tools for analyzing DNA to researchers.
So BioDatomics developed its BioDT software, which provides more than 400 tools for analyzing genomic data.
We use these transforms as tools for analyzing almost periodic functions and strong limit power signals.
Infrared and Raman microscopies are complementary tools for analyzing the chemical structures of polymer.
