Parsimony
61parsimoniousness — noun 1. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily • Syn: ↑parsimony, ↑thrift, ↑penny pinching • Derivationally related forms: ↑penny pinching (for: ↑penny pinching), ↑ …
62Economies — economy e*con o*my ([ e]*k[o^]n [ o]*m[y^]), n.; pl. {Economies} ([ e]*k[o^]n [ o]*m[i^]z). [F. [ e]conomie, L. oeconomia household management, fr. Gr. o ikonomi a, fr. o ikono mos one managing a household; o i^kos house (akin to L. vicus village …
63economy — e*con o*my ([ e]*k[o^]n [ o]*m[y^]), n.; pl. {Economies} ([ e]*k[o^]n [ o]*m[i^]z). [F. [ e]conomie, L. oeconomia household management, fr. Gr. o ikonomi a, fr. o ikono mos one managing a household; o i^kos house (akin to L. vicus village, E.… …
64Political economy — economy e*con o*my ([ e]*k[o^]n [ o]*m[y^]), n.; pl. {Economies} ([ e]*k[o^]n [ o]*m[i^]z). [F. [ e]conomie, L. oeconomia household management, fr. Gr. o ikonomi a, fr. o ikono mos one managing a household; o i^kos house (akin to L. vicus village …
65Cladistics — For the scientific journal, see Cladistics (journal). Part of a series on Evolutionary Biology …
66Intelligent design — This article is about intelligent design as promulgated by the Discovery Institute. For other uses, see Intelligent design (disambiguation). For the philosophical argument from design , see Teleological argument …
67Phylogenetic tree — ptree redirects here. For Patricia tree, see Radix tree …
68Ecopsychology — connects psychology and ecology. The political and practical implications are to show humans ways of healing alienation and to build a sane society and a sustainable culture. Theodore Roszak is credited with coining the term in his 1992 book, The …
69Hickam's dictum — is a counterargument to the use of Occam s razor in the medical profession. [See, e.g., Hickam s Dictum versus Occam s Razor: A Case for Occam. W. Bradley Fields, MD, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI (2005) (… …
70Phylogenetic comparative methods — When applied to comparative data, conventional statistical methods assume, in effect, that all species are completely unrelated. As if they descended from a big bang of special creation. Such a scenario can be depicted as a star phylogeny (left) …
