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Strategy

Strategy is a general plan to achieve long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty, linking ends to means by setting priorities, determining needed actions, and mobilizing limited resources.

Strategy (game theory)

In game theory, a strategy is a complete plan of action specifying a player's move in every possible state, including states never reached in play.

Strategy (song)

Strategy (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) is a December 6, 2024 single by TWICE, title track of the 14th mini album STRATEGY; an English 8-bit hip-hop track that later charted via the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, peaking at No. 51 on the Hot 100 and going RIAA platinum.

Strategy game

Strategy game: video game genre of planning and resource management over reflexes; subgenres include RTS, 4X, grand strategy, MOBA, tower defense; named with Dune II (1992); mobile strategy earned $9.1bn in H1 2026.

Strategy of American football

Strategy of American football covers offensive, defensive, and special-teams planning: downs system, forward-pass and formation history, RPOs, coverage schemes, fourth-down analytics, and rule-driven change.

Strategy pattern

The Strategy pattern, also called the Policy pattern, is a behavioral design pattern that places each algorithm in its own class so the context can swap them at runtime.

Strategy video game

Strategy video game genre: planning-focused games of resource and unit management against human or AI opponents. Subgenres include RTS (Dune II, StarCraft), turn-based, 4X, and grand strategy; 10,796 Mobygames titles as of 2015.

Stratfor

Stratfor, also known as Strategic Forecasting Inc., is an American geopolitical intelligence company founded in 1996 by George Friedman, known as a "private CIA" and now part of RANE.

Stratford Festival

The Stratford Festival, a classical repertory theatre in Stratford, Ontario, founded 1953 by Tom Patterson with Tyrone Guthrie; known for its thrust stage, 700+ performances a season, and 2027 75th season.

Stratford Festival Theatre

The Stratford Festival Theatre is a 1,833-seat thrust-stage theater in Stratford, Ontario, opened in 1957 as the first permanent thrust-stage theater in North America, with its stage conceived by Tyrone Guthrie and Tanya Moiseiwitsch.

Stratford Hall

Stratford Hall is a historic plantation house in Westmoreland County, Virginia, built in the 1730s by Thomas Lee and best known as Robert E. Lee's birthplace.

Stratford High School (Houston)

Stratford High School (Houston) is a Spring Branch ISD public high school for grades 9-12 at 14555 Fern Drive, Houston, Texas; the Spartans enroll about 2,400 students and hold a TEA A rating of 92/100. Distinct from Stratford ISD's Elks in the Texas Panhandle and Stratford, Connecticut's high school.

Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon: Warwickshire market town on the River Avon, chartered 1196, birthplace and burial place of William Shakespeare; major heritage tourism center with about 2.5 million annual visitors.

Stratford, London

Stratford is an east London district in the borough of Newham, host of the London 2012 Olympics, home to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Westfield Stratford City, and one of the UK's busiest railway stations.

Stratford, Ontario

Stratford, Ontario, a city of 33,232 on the Avon River and Perth County's separated seat, grew from a Grand Trunk Railway repair-shop junction into the home of the Stratford Festival, Canada's classical theatre, with manufacturing and arts-led diversification.

Strathaven

Strathaven, a market town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, means "Valley of the Avon"; chartered in 1450, it lies about 18 miles from Glasgow on the A71.

Strathclyde Country Park

Strathclyde Country Park: 400-hectare free-access country park at Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, around man-made Strathclyde Loch (filled 1975). 8-lane 2 km rowing course, Commonwealth Games rowing venue, built over the demolished village of Bothwellhaugh.

Strathcona Resources

Strathcona Resources is a Calgary-based Canadian heavy oil producer formed in 2020 by Waterous Energy Fund, which became a public company in October 2023 through acquiring Pipestone Energy.

Stratheden Gas Field

The Stratheden Gas Field is an Arrow Energy coal seam gas field in Queensland's Surat Basin, about 20 km north-west of Dalby, with 285 PJ of reserves in 2013.

Stratification (quality tools)

Stratification, in quality management, is the technique of sorting data, people, and objects into distinct groups so that patterns hidden in combined data become visible; it is one of the seven basic quality tools.

Stratification score

The stratification score is the estimated probability of case status given confounders, used in retrospective studies to form strata balancing cases and controls, the case-control analog of the propensity score.

Stratified analysis (statistics)

Stratified analysis is a statistical method for controlling confounding by splitting data into subgroups sharing a confounder's level, then pooling stratum-specific estimates into an adjusted overall effect.

Stratified randomization

Stratified randomization is a restricted form of randomization that first sorts trial participants into subgroups defined by pre-specified baseline variables, then allocates treatments randomly within each stratum to promote balance.

Stratified sampling

Stratified sampling, or stratified random sampling, is a probability sampling method that divides a population into homogeneous subgroups called strata, sampling independently within each to improve precision.

Stratified squamous epithelium

Stratified squamous epithelium, keratinized or non-keratinized, is a multilayered protective epithelium with flattened surface cells, lining skin, esophagus, vagina, cornea, and oral mucosa, renewed by basal cell mitosis.

Stratigraphic analysis (archaeology)

Stratigraphic analysis is the archaeological method of ordering excavated deposits into a relative sequence, typically represented by a Harris matrix, devised by Edward Harris in 1973.

Stratigraphic column

A stratigraphic column is a diagram showing the vertical succession of rock units in a region, with the oldest formation at the bottom and the youngest at the top.

Stratigraphic correlation

Stratigraphic correlation is the demonstration of correspondence in character or stratigraphic position between rock units at different localities, by lithology, fossils, or time, to build regional and global frameworks of layered rocks.

Stratigraphic section measuring

Stratigraphic section measuring is the field practice of measuring the thickness and succession of exposed rock layers, producing a measured section that records lithology, fossils, and structures in vertical order.