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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > governance > crisis management > issues in crisis management > nonlinearity
... > social science subjects > business and management > management settings > business management > governance > crisis management > issues in crisis management > nonlinearity
... > social science subjects > education > educational systems > curriculum > curriculum studies > inquiry and research > quantitative research > quantitative data analysis > exploratory data analysis > nonlinearity
... > social science subjects > social research > research methods and evaluation > quantitative research > quantitative data analysis > exploratory data analysis > nonlinearity

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nonlinearity  

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  • Nonlinearity is a central idea of chaos theory and distinguishes how chaos theory conceptualizes systems differently from other scientific paradigms. Nonlinearity is used by a multitude of scholars in various disciplines to explain vast and often disproportional changes in a system through complex and often unknown interactions within a system. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crisis Management; Nonlinearity]

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