Analysis

An analysis is a critical evaluation, usually made by breaking a subject (either material or intellectual) down into its constituent parts, then describing the parts and their relationship to the whole. See also analytic and synthesis.

Related Topics:
Analytic - Synthesis

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As such, it can be applied in many different fields of study:

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• In philosophy:
• analysis (philosophy)
• In mathematics:
• mathematical analysis
• real analysis - real numbers
• complex analysis - holomorphic functions
• functional analysis - study of spaces of functions
• non-standard analysis - hyperreal numbers
• harmonic analysis - Fourier series
• numerical analysis
• statistical analysis
• meta-analysis
• analysis of variance (ANOVA)
• time-series analysis
• In computing:
• object-oriented analysis and design
• Structured Analysis such as Yourdon
• lexical analysis
• semantic analysis
• syntax analysis
• competitive analysis
• analysis of algorithms
• computer program analysis
• static code analysis
• In music:
• musical analysis
• Schenkerian analysis
• In psychotherapy:
• psychoanalysis
• transactional analysis
• In cryptography:
• cryptanalysis - the decoding of ciphers
• frequency analysis
• In economics:
• fundamentals analysis
• technical analysis - used in predicting stock market trends
• In language studies:
• discourse analysis
• voice analysis
• In signal processing:
• finite element analysis
• principal components analysis
• independent components analysis
• link quality analysis
• path quality analysis

In other fields:

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• system analysis - in electrical engineering
• systems analysis - study of large systems
• lithic analysis - study of stone tools, in archaeology
• isotope analysis in archaeology and paleontology
• aura analysis - study of bodily auras and energy fields
• dimensional analysis - in physics and engineering
• neutron activation analysis - in chemistry
• life cycle cost analysis
• chemical analysis
• bowling analysis in the sport of cricket
• protocol analysis in knowledge technology