quantitative
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"Quantitatively, there may be refinements. For example, the current treatment includes gravity in a static, lowest-order approximation. The pulsar is rotating, and including rotational effects could introduce quantitative changes, though not qualitative ones."
From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026
That other Greek concept is chronos, which refers to chronological or sequential time and is quantitative.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
Alexander Hübbert, a quantitative researcher working on his Ph.D. at Stockholm University, ran some numbers recently that make it crystal clear.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
The firm employs quantitative strategies across the platform to build stock portfolios that use companies’ fundamental information in a systematic and risk-controlled way.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
In a paper titled “The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes,” the economist Bruce Sacerdote addressed the nature- nurture debate by taking a long-term quantitative look at the effects of parenting.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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