GDP can be contrasted with gross national product (GNP) or, as it is now known, gross national income (GNI). The difference is that GDP defines its scope according to location, while GNI defines its s ...
GDP can be determined in three ways, all of which should, in principle, give the same result. They are the production (or output) approach, the income approach, or the expenditure approach.The most di ...
A subset of a population is called a subpopulation if they share one or more additional properties. For example, if the population is all German people, a subpopulation is all German males; if the pop ...
Statistics in the Social Sciences Statistics and statistical analyses have become a key feature of social science. Statistics is employed in economics, psychology, political science, sociology and ant ...
17th century and earlierAtlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658)Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667)Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (France, 1658–1676)Dell'Arcano del Ma ...
Several things distinguish a traditional directory service from a typical relational database. Of course there are exceptions, but in general:directory information is read more often than it is writte ...
The board of trustees has ultimate authority of all the businesses and affairs of the Foundation. It is composed of ten members:three who are selected by the community encompassed by all the different ...
The Wikimedia Foundation falls under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code as a public charity. Its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code is B60 (Adult, Continuing education). T ...
On March 25, 2007, Citizendium officially launched. In early 2007, Sanger announced he would not head Citizendium indefinitely. Two weeks after the launch of Citizendium, Sanger criticized Wikipedia, ...
Early life and education Sanger was born in Bellevue, Washington. When he was seven years old, the family moved to Anchorage, Alaska. His father was a marine biologist and his mother cared for the chi ...
On May 14, 2014, Wales strongly reacted to the European Court of Justice (ECJ)'s ruling on the right of individuals to request the removal of information from Google's search results. He stated to the ...
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on August 7, 1966. His father, Jimmy, worked as a grocery store manager, while his mother, Doris, and his grandmother, Erma, ran the House of Learning, a small p ...
Following Bill Gates's internal "Internet Tidal Wave memo" on May 26, 1995, Microsoft began to redefine its offerings and expand its product line into computer networking and the World Wide Web. The c ...
The Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the other three regions of the United States. It took place from 1941, through World War II, and ...
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" statu ...
