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top-down analysis

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top-down analysis [¦täp ¦dau̇n ə′nal·ə·səs]
(computer science)
A predictive method of syntactic analysis which, starting from the root symbol, attempts to predict the means by which a string was generated.


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A top-down analysis of your site's objectives is the place to start the development of your action plan.
The authors (with contributors) begin by defining both discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, describing both top-down and bottom-up approaches, then elaborate on top-down analysis to introduce move analysis, identify and analyze rhetorical moves in philanthropic discourse, describe rhetorical moves in biochemistry research articles, and examine rhetorical appeals in fundraising.
Most other managers say they pay little heed to such top-down analysis and instead pick stocks from the bottom up -- that is, issue by issue.
 
 
 
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