Or do we just need a better explanatory framework?

Constructor theory provides an explanatory framework built on the transformations themselves, rather than the components.

Qin has been concerned to show that history rather than culture provides a solid explanatory framework for the empirical phenomena.

The term refers to the regular work of scientists experimenting within a settled paradigm or explanatory framework.

Over the past few decades, a single explanatory framework, called string theory, has emerged that may turn out to be the ultimate theory of the universe.

He said others may have got the wrong impression as he mistakenly failed to add an explanatory note.

He has, he says in an explanatory note, 'no doubt' about its authenticity.

To achieve its goals each name must have a credible source or in least an explanatory note.

The book begins with an explanatory note detailing the discovery of these papers.

There will also usually be an explanatory note describing, in summary form and using non-legal language, the purpose and scope of the legislation.

This explanatory statement provides one of the best sources of legislative history on the bill.

The wording of an explanatory statement that will appear on the ballot must be approved by the attorney general and printed in newspapers.

Earmarks may appear in either the legislative text or report language (committee reports accompanying reported bills and joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report).

And the conference report also includes a joint explanatory statement of the conference committee.

However, they do not permit reference to other explanatory statements or speeches.

Natural selection provides the outline of an explanatory theory.

He believes that those practicing magic do not think of an explanatory theory behind their actions any more than the average person tries to grasp the pharmaceutical workings of aspirin.

He avoids any grand explanatory theories.

That result would not be predicted under explanatory theories of sexism.

And where models are introduced in phylogenetic reconstruction, we should prefer models dictated by features of the data to models derived from explanatory theories.

The alternative terms explanatory variable, independent variable, or predictor, are used in a regression analysis.

For a continuous explanatory variable, the same interpretation applies to a unit difference.

Feature vectors are equivalent to the vectors of explanatory variables used in statistical procedures such as linear regression.

When there are more than two explanatory variables, several interaction variables are constructed, with pairwise-products representing pairwise-interactions and higher order products representing higher order interactions.

Regression analysis controls for other relevant variables by including them as regressors (explanatory variables).