For years, scientists have used standard statistical techniques to measure the significance of their results or the degree of correlation between two variables. (newscientist.com)
When estimating the effect of a teacher's gender, I use standard statistical techniques to adjust for the effect of several other teacher and classroom characteristics that may affect student outcomes. (educationnext.org)
Kellermann took pains to compensate for these other factors using standard statistical techniques of epidemiology. (discovermagazine.com)