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  2. Cohort - Wikipedia

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    Cohort (taxonomy), in biology, one of the taxonomic ranks; Cohort study, a form of longitudinal study used in medicine and social science; Cohort analysis, a subset of behavioral analytics that takes the data from a given data set; Generational cohort, an aggregation of individuals who experience the same event within the same time interval

  3. Cohort (educational group) - Wikipedia

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    A cohort is a group of students who work through a curriculum together to achieve the same academic degree together. Cohortians are the individual members of such a group. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In a cohort, there is an expectation of richness to the learning process due to the multiple perspectives offered by the students.

  4. Generation - Wikipedia

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    The word generate comes from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget". [4] The word generation as a group or cohort in social science signifies the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time, most of whom are approximately the same age and have similar ideas, problems, and attitudes (e.g., Beat Generation and Lost Generation).

  5. Cohort (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Case–control study versus cohort on a timeline. "OR" stands for "odds ratio" and "RR" stands for "relative risk".In statistics, epidemiology, marketing and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects who share a defining characteristic (typically subjects who experienced a common event in a selected time period, such as birth or graduation).

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. Cohort study - Wikipedia

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    Cohort Succession can explain most change in literature, art, intellectualism, political opinions, and phonology. [5] Shorter term studies are commonly used in medical research as a form of clinical trial, or means to test a particular hypothesis of clinical importance. Such studies typically follow two groups of patients for a period of time ...

  8. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Under this approach, citizens "have no right to keep or bear arms, but the states have a collective right to have the National Guard". [155] Advocates of collective rights models argued that the Second Amendment was written to prevent the federal government from disarming state militias, rather than to secure an individual right to possess ...

  9. Hortative - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, hortative modalities (/ ˈ h ɔːr t ə t ɪ v / ⓘ; abbreviated HORT) are verbal expressions used by the speaker to encourage or discourage an action. Different hortatives can be used to express greater or lesser intensity, or the speaker's attitude, for or against it.