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Çelik, H. Coskun – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
The aim of the present study was to examine the mathematical modelling studies done between 2004 and 2015 in Turkey and to reveal their tendencies. Forty-nine studies were selected using purposeful sampling based on the term, "mathematical modelling" with Higher Education Academic Search Engine. They were analyzed with content analysis.…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Qualitative Research
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Bautista, Alfredo; Wilkerson-Jerde, Michelle H.; Tobin, Roger G.; Brizuela, Bárbara M. – PNA, 2014
This paper describes the ideas that mathematics teachers (grades 5-9) have regarding mathematical models of real-world phenomena, and explores how teachers' ideas differ depending on their educational background. Participants were 56 United States in-service mathematics teachers. We analyzed teachers' written responses to three open-ended…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Praunlich, Peter; Kroll, Michael – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1978
Recent mathematical descriptions of Bradford's distribution, and a new formulation that provides a more accurate estimation of the total number of papers and sources on a given scientific subject are presented. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Content Analysis, Graphs, Mathematical Models
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Oppenheim, Rosa – Computers and the Humanities, 1988
Examines mathematical models of style analysis, focusing on the pattern in which literary characteristics occur. Describes an autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA) for predicting sentence length in different works by the same author and comparable works by different authors. This technique is valuable in characterizing stylistic…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Correlation, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles
Fried, J.B.; And Others – 1968
The objectives of this research were to investigage (1) the feasibility of an index simulator, and (2) the use of a sequential analysis model for the automatic classification of documents. Index simulation was studied in general for various types of indexes, and in depth for the simulation of an inverted coordinate index to a document collection…
Descriptors: Automation, Classification, Computer Programs, Computers