Browsing MIT OCW Archived Courses by Subject "observation"

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    • 12.864 Inference from Data and Models, Spring 2003 

      Wunsch, Carl (2003-06)
      Fundamental methods used for exploring the information content of observations related to kinematical and dynamical models. Basic statistics and linear algebra for inverse methods including singular value decompositions, ...

    • 17.869 Political Science Scope and Methods, Fall 2003 

      Berinsky, Adam (2003-12)
      This course is designed to provide an introduction to a variety of empirical research methods used by political scientists. The primary aims of the course are to make you a more sophisticated consumer of diverse empirical ...

    • 21A.01 How Culture Works, Fall 2012 

      Buyandelger, Manduhai (2012-12)
      This course introduces diverse meanings and uses of the concept of culture with historical and contemporary examples from scholarship and popular media around the globe. It includes first-hand observations, synthesized ...

    • 24.111 Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Spring 2002 

      Hall, Edward J. (Edward Jonathon), 1966- (2002-06)
      Quantum mechanics is said to describe a world in which physical objects often lack "definite" properties, indeterminism creeps in at the point of "observation," ordinary logic does not apply, and distant events are perfectly ...