theoretical expectation
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftheoreticalandexpectation
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theoretical
adjective
uk/θɪəˈret.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌθiː.əˈret̬.kəl/
based on the ideas that relate to a subject, not the practical uses of ...
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expectation
noun
uk/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/
the feeling that good things are going to happen in ...
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The results of the aggregate analysis are largely consistent withtheoreticalexpectationas well as the findings of prior aggregate research.
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Thetheoreticalexpectationis that children will initially associate perfective aspectual morphemes with achievement verbs and imperfective morphemes with activity verbs.
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This is consistent with thetheoreticalexpectationthat balancing selection is increasing the effective migration rate in subdivided populations.
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This makes obvious that per formance exceeds thetheoreticalexpectationnear the fovea, and falls below expectation in the periphery.
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Thetheoreticalexpectationof the direction of the electoral impact is ambiguous, as mentioned above.
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Less consistent withtheoreticalexpectationare the results for subnational policy performance.
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The shared environment variance component will reflect the extent to which the correlations depart from thistheoreticalexpectation, due to similarity between twins beyond that accounted for by genetic similarity.
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Ourtheoreticalexpectationfor ideology is uncertain.
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The generaltheoreticalexpectationconcerning the degree of convergence holds that the effects of regulatory competition increase with the economic openness of the countries under consideration.
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Markov computed the mean dispersion from the average on the level of the single letter by dividing the value found, 5.114, by 100, and compared it to itstheoreticalexpectation.
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Figure 2 vindicates these theoretical expectations, summarizing district-level estimates of coalition sticking by party and coalition.
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Table 2 summarizes our theoretical expectations for the explanatory variables.
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Achieving greater clarity in theoretical expectations is crucial to the development of attachment theory.
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While evolution during the experiment created differences in plasticities among the populations, those differences did not conform to theoretical expectations.
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The hypothesis of direct overdominance may be evaluated by comparing observed relationships with theoretical expectations.
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Also, findings were consistent with theoretical expectations, suggesting they were not simply random associations.
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Such a suggestion would not settle the matter but would most likely constrain and inform the theoretical expectations.
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My theoretical expectations may have been too derivative of other research that did not consider international public opinion directly.
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In a third model, we include a set of realist variables to test whether the above results hold while controlling for rival theoretical expectations.
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