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anorexia

n. absence or loss of appetite for food or, less commonly, for other desires (e.g., sex), especially when chronic. It may be primarily a psychological disorder, as in anorexia nervosa, or it may have physiological causes, such as hypopituitarism. —anorectic or anorexic adj., n.

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January 22nd 2025

data analysis

data analysis

the process of applying graphical, statistical, or quantitative techniques to a set of observations or measurements in order to summarize it or to find general patterns. For example, a very basic data analysis would involve calculating descriptive statistics (e.g., mean, median, mode, standard deviation) and possibly graphing the observations with a histogram or bar graph.