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  2. Descriptive research - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive research generally precedes explanatory research. For example, over time the periodic table's description of the elements allowed scientists to explain chemical reaction and make sound prediction when elements were combined. Hence, descriptive research cannot describe what caused a situation. Thus, descriptive research cannot be ...

  3. Multiple choice - Wikipedia

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    A multiple choice question, with days of the week as potential answers. Multiple choice (MC), [1] objective response or MCQ(for multiple choice question) is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to select only the correct answer from the choices offered as a list.

  4. Metadata - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive metadata is typically used for discovery and identification, as information to search and locate an object, such as title, authors, subjects, keywords, and publisher. Structural metadata describes how the components of an object are organized. An example of structural metadata would be how pages are ordered to form chapters of a book.

  5. Cataloging (library science) - Wikipedia

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    In library and information science, cataloging or cataloguing is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging provides information such as author's names, titles, and subject terms that describe resources, typically through the creation of bibliographic records. [1]

  6. Wikipedia:Labels/Edit types/Taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    label description Copy Editing rephrase; improve grammar, spelling, tone, or punctuation. Clarification specify or explain an existing fact or meaning by example or discussion without adding new information. Simplification reduce the complexity or breadth of discussion; may remove information. Point of View

  7. Phenomenological description - Wikipedia

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    Phenomenological description has found widespread application within psychology and the cognitive sciences. For example, Maurice Merleau-Ponty is the first well known phenomenologist to openly mingle the results of empirical research with phenomenologically descriptive research.

  8. Anscombe's quartet - Wikipedia

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    The four datasets composing Anscombe's quartet. All four sets have identical statistical parameters, but the graphs show them to be considerably different. Anscombe's quartet comprises four datasets that have nearly identical simple descriptive statistics, yet have very different distributions and appear very different when graphed.

  9. Descriptive interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Attempts to axiomatize the empirical sciences, Carnap said, use a descriptive interpretation to model reality.: [1] the aim of these attempts is to construct a formal system for which reality is the only interpretation. [2] - the world is an interpretation (or model) of these sciences, only insofar as these sciences are true. [2]