adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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factor
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Marxism's main flaw is its insistence on economics and the economic category of class as the one fundamental explanatory factor .
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As an example of the kinds of subtle relationships that exist among different explanatory factors , the Appendix reconsiders the 1976 data.
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To investigate relations between sets of possible explanatory factors and each outcome variable a stepwise multiple linear regression analysis was used.
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Primary explanatory factors considered were birth weight, gestational age, gender, and treatment group.
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Only by comparing across the presence and absence of outcomes can the importance of explanatory factors be determined.
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In any case, shortage of profits is quite implausible as an explanatory factor .
framework
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Beginning with the phenomena of sense, and by the use of our explanatory framework , we form hypotheses about their causes.
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Often, it deploys explanatory frameworks taken from traditional and egalitarian feminist psychology.
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With hindsight this explanatory framework often seems inadequate, inappropriate, and inconsistent.
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Even within this explanatory framework , little useful understanding will be obtained without first studying the problem at many different levels.
leaflet
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Details of the Scheme are outlined in the explanatory leaflet which you will receive in due course.
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This explanatory leaflet provides a brief description of changes made to the original design since September 1978.
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A colourful explanatory leaflet is available from all national park outlets and most responsible mountain bike shops in the area.
note
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This should be annotated with explanatory notes for clarification.
power
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The explanatory power of concepts can he enhanced if they are applied in contexts with which the comparativist is most familiar.
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A major factor with significant explanatory power for both participation and intensity is the leisure orientation of the consumer.
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We regard such a theory as providing us, as anthropologists, with a concept of useful explanatory power .
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Fama also tested for changes in the model's explanatory power over time.
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As the philosopher van Fraassen asks, what has explanatory power got to do with truth?
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The number of relevant factors and their explanatory power changed between sub-periods.
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His theory is then, relatively limited in its explanatory power .
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And as such they have no causal or explanatory power of their own.
statement
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The explanatory statement often takes the form of a letter from the financial advisers of the target and the bidder jointly.
survey
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Unfortunately, in a number of respects explanatory surveys failed to match up to the strict requirements of the logic required.
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In most cases of explanatory surveys it is perhaps less appropriate to speak of samples at all in the strict sense.
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What explanatory surveys require are cases which possess characteristics relevant to the problem of the research.
theory
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It allows us to record the principal ideas, key concepts, competing explanatory theories and illustrations used. 5.
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What was the nature of this work, and what was the explanatory theory at its gut?
variable
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The models may be extended to include observable explanatory variables and simultaneity can be allowed for as in econometric models.
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This more detailed and individualistic approach facilitates more accurate linkages between explanatory variables and the political behavior of gladiators.
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The definitions of the other explanatory variables are obvious.
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The relevant explanatory variables are listed in Table 5.1.
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A detailed case study approach is also called for by the nature of the explanatory variables that will be proposed.
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Secondly, several explanatory variables were difficult to measure and were only measured at one point in time.
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The response variable thus provides the proportions, and the explanatory variable the categories.
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The work characteristics and social support were more likely to have been misclassified than some of the other explanatory variables .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The information desk has maps and explanatory pamphlets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A detailed case study approach is also called for by the nature of the explanatory variables that will be proposed.
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As an example of the kinds of subtle relationships that exist among different explanatory factors, the Appendix reconsiders the 1976 data.
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Marxism's main flaw is its insistence on economics and the economic category of class as the one fundamental explanatory factor.
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The explanatory power of concepts can he enhanced if they are applied in contexts with which the comparativist is most familiar.
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The distinction between descriptive research and explanatory research is often very blurred.
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These lessons were contained in revisions to the constitution and in the explanatory legislation that codified its clauses.