intuitive explanation

collocation in English

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intuitive
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈtʃuː.ɪ.tɪv/
us
/ɪnˈtuː.ɪ.t̬ɪv/
based on feelings rather than facts ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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In section 5 we state a variety of basic equational laws along with anintuitiveexplanationof how these laws are established.
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In section 3, we first provide anintuitiveexplanationof our algorithm and continue with a discussion at a more detailed level.
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Anintuitiveexplanationcan be given in terms of the influences of the spatial frequencies of the visual stimulus on neural activity during oculomotor behavior.
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Do you have anintuitiveexplanationof how wage rigidities may imply a second-best allocation under incomplete markets?
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There is anintuitiveexplanationfor a stronger effect at longer horizons.
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We can now give a moreintuitiveexplanationof the emergence of endogenous fluctuations in this model.
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There is also anintuitiveexplanationof this ambiguous result.
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The model presented here offers a fairly simple andintuitiveexplanationfor recurring downturns.
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Making thisintuitiveexplanationrigorous requires some work because of the complicated dependencies between which facilities are opened.
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Before turning to the model itself, however, some results are first presented, since they provide anintuitiveexplanationof the model's properties.
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In particular, good mathematical models give predictions that we may not expect beforehand-although we are often able to make a verbal,intuitiveexplanationafterward.
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Before giving this a formal construction, we provide anintuitiveexplanationof the underlying ideas in the next section.
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Theintuitiveexplanationis that the pathogen will become extinct in a short space of time only if the latently infected individual dies before a reactivation event takes place.
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Anintuitiveexplanationmay be the following.
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Theintuitiveexplanationand lowest order approximation is the same as strong focusing in accelerator physics.
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He gives good intuitive explanations about possible causes of loops, essentially circular modes and speculative output bindings.
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Perhaps the mostintuitiveexplanationfor this effect is that it is related to some sort of age-related decline in neural processes that detect and encode negative information.
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There are simple intuitive explanations for each of these three features.
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Anintuitiveexplanationis that optimizing for the mean-squared error of a "combined" estimator is not the same as optimizing for the errors of separate estimators of the individual parameters.
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Of course, other intuitive explanations are possible, which are classically equivalent.
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