Direct method may refer to
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Direct method (education) for learning a foreign language
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Direct method (computational mathematics) as opposed to iterative method
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Direct methods (crystallography) In crystallography, direct methods are a family of methods for estimating the phases of the Fourier transform of the scattering density from the corresponding magnitudes. The methods generally exploit constraints or statistical correlations between ...
for estimating the phases of the Fourier transform of the scattering density from the corresponding magnitudes
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Direct method in calculus of variations
In mathematics, the direct method in the calculus of variations is a general method for constructing a proof of the existence of a minimizer for a given functional, introduced by Stanisław Zaremba and David Hilbert around 1900. The method relie ...
for constructing a proof of the existence of a minimizer for a given functional
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Direct method (accounting) as opposed to indirect method for calculating cash flows
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