Analysis

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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.

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

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:

In other fields:

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

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