polythetic

polythetic

(of a taxon) where each member possess a majority of a set of characters.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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Polythetic conceptualization is the soul of current psychiatric diagnosis and is found in the definition of most mental disorders.
Diagnostic operationalization and phenomenological heterogeneity in psychiatry: the case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Women's endorsement of different models of sexual functioning supports polythetic criteria of female sexual Interest/ Arousal disorder in DSM-5.
Identifying the disruptions in the sexual response cycles of women with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
As a starting point for the polythetic classification of programs as character education programs, the following features are suggested as reasonable category minima:
WHAT IS CHARACTER EDUCATION? Development of a Prototype
Rhetoric's diverse materiality: Polythetic, ontology, and genealogy.
Gut Rhetorics: Toward Experiments in Living with Microbiota
A polythetic scoring scheme (scoring three or above on at least four of the six items) is used to categorize addicts and non-addicts.
Role of personality and narcissism in facebook addiction among male and female college students
However, in agreement with researchers who have assessed other behavior addictions (Lemmens et al., 2009), a liberal approach would necessitate use of polythetic scoring and a monothetic scoring scheme (Andreassen et al., 2012).
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEMATIC SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES USE SCALE WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS
Most algorithms are polythetic (i.e.) they are computation of distances between patterns, and the decisions are based on these patterns.
An analysis of effective clustering techniques for web data mining
Indicator Species Analysis, a Divisive Polythetic Method of Classification and its Application to a Survey of Native Pinewoods in Scotland.
PHYTOSOCIOLOGY OF TREE VEGETATION IN IGUACU NATIONAL PARK/FITOSSOCIOLOGIA DA VEGETACAO ARBOREA DO PARQUE NACIONAL DO IGUACU
This monothetic unity is composed of various polythetic constituents, subprovinces--Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism--that aid in the constitution of this province.
Kendo: between "religion" and "nationalism"
They detail the complications that arise from the 'polythetic nature' of BPD i.e.
A review of NICE guidelines on the management of borderline personality disorder
This combination is sufficient to conform an intentional meaning of the polythetic concept of the new clade (Reig, 1987:364).
Una nueva tribu de roedores Sigmodontinae (Cricetidae)
Wilson, From the Lexical to the Polythetic: A Brief History of the Definition of Religion, in WHAT IS RELIGION?, in ORIGINS, DEFINITIONS, AND EXPLANATIONS 141, 144-48 (Thomas A.
Religious rights in historical, theoretical, and international context: Hobby Lobby as a jurisprudential anomaly?
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