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Analysis may refer to:

• Analytical chemistry, to examine material samples to gain an understanding of their chemical composition
• Isotope analysis, the identification of isotopic signature, the distribution of certain stable isotopes and chemical elements within chemical compounds
• Neutron activation analysis, a technique used to very accurately determine the concentrations of elements in a sample

• Analysis of algorithms
• Competitive analysis (online algorithm), shows how online algorithms perform and demonstrates the power of randomization in algorithms
• Worst-case execution time, determines the longest time that a piece of software can take to run
• Program analysis (computer science), the process of automatically analyzing the behavior of computer programs
• Static code analysis, the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs built from that software
• Syntax analysis, a process in compilers that recognizes the structure of programming languages, also known as parsing
• Semantic analysis (computer science), a pass by a compiler that adds semantical information to the parse tree and performs certain checks
• Lexical analysis, the process of processing an input sequence of characters and producing as output a sequence of symbols
• Object-oriented analysis and design, á la Booch
• Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology, á la Yourdon

• Cryptanalysis, the study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information
• Frequency analysis, a method to decompose a function, wave, or signal into its frequency components

• Financial analysis, the analysis of the accounts and the economic prospects of a firm
• Fundamental analysis, a stock valuation method that uses financial analysis
• Principal components analysis, a technique that can be used to simplify a dataset
• Technical analysis, the study of price action in securities markets in order to forecast future prices
• Price Analysis, involves the breakdown of a price to a unit figure
• Market analysis, consists of suppliers and customers, and price is determined by the interaction of supply and demand

• Analysis of resistive circuits, deals with electronic circuits containing only resistive elements
• Dimensional analysis, a conceptual tool to understand physical situations involving a mix of different kinds of physical quantities
• Accident Analysis, a branch of systems analysis dealing with the analysis of failure
• Life cycle cost analysis, calculates the cost of a system or product over its entire life span
• Structural analysis, an area of civil and structural engineering in which the deformations, deflections, internal forces and stresses of structures are analyzed
• System analysis, the branch of electrical engineering that characterizes electrical systems and their properties
• Systems analysis, the science dealing with analysis of complex, large scale systems and the interactions within those systems

• Crime analysis, the identification and analysis of trends, patterns and problems in crime and disorder

• Discourse analysis, a general term for the analysis of language use above the sentence or clause level
• Semantic analysis (linguistics), the process of unpacking clause, sentence and paragraph structure
• Voice analysis, the study of speech sounds for purposes other than linguistic content
• Conversation analysis, the study of talk in interaction

• Analysis (Homer), an influential school of thought in Homeric scholarship in the 19th-20th centuries
• Psychocriticism, Charles Mauron's method based on Freud's own initial interpretations of literary works such as Hamlet

• Mathematical analysis, the generic name given to any branch of mathematics which depends upon the concepts of limits and convergence
• Complex analysis
• Functional analysis
• Harmonic analysis
• Non-standard analysis
• Numerical analysis, the study of algorithms for the problems of continuous mathematics
• Real analysis
• Constructivist analysis

• Musical analysis, a process attempting to answer the question "How does this music work?"
• Schenkerian analysis

• Philosophical analysis, a general term for the techniques used by philosophers
• Analysis is the name of a prominent journal in philosophy.

• Psychoanalysis, seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients' mental processes
• Transactional analysis

• Finite element analysis, a computer simulation technique used in engineering analysis
• Independent component analysis
• Link quality analysis, the analysis of signal quality
• Path quality analysis

• Analysis of variance, a collection of statistical models and their associated procedures which compare means by splitting the overall observed variance into different parts
• Meta-analysis, combines the results of several studies that address a set of related research hypotheses
• Time-series analysis, methods that attempt to understand a sequence of data points spaced apart at uniform time intervals

• Aura analysis, a technique in which supporters of the method claim that the body's aura, or energy field is analyzed
• Bowling analysis, a notation summarizing a cricket bowler's performance
• Lithic analysis, the analysis of stone tools using basic scientific techniques
• Protocol analysis, a means for extracting persons' thoughts while they are performing a task

• List of thinking-related topics
• Synthesis
• Scientific method