Sentences with phrase «most statisticians»

The truth is that no measure — at least that I could find — passes muster for most statisticians, researchers, and scientists.

It could be because M&M overcooked the red noise with ARFIMA, instead of using AR1 -LRB-.2) like most statisticians would for this type of data.

Although some Bayesians reject such testing, most people (including most statisticians) want a statistical inference method to produce, over the long run, results that accord with relative frequencies of outcomes from repeated tests involving random draws from the relevant probability distributions.

while there is undoubtedly scope for statisticians to play a larger role in paleoclimate research, the large investment of time needed to become familiar with the scientific background is likely to deter most statisticians from entering this field... In the end, it's important not to lose sight of the forest for the trees, where the «forest» refers to the totality of scientific evidence for global warming.

Weller retorts that «most statisticians would regard such an analysis as statistical crime».

«Most statisticians wouldn't trust an analysis that throws away half to two - thirds of the data,» he says.

As Berry notes, statisticians can correctly define P values in a technical sense, but «most statisticians do not really understand the issues in applied settings.»

The point being that the biggest argument for controlling marijuana, the claim that it lead to use of worse drugs, was pretty much proven to be false, and most statisticians and researchers seem to agree on that fact today.

Most statisticians agree that an NNT over 40 is no more than gambling.

In modern polling, most statisticians see sampling 1,000 people as a good compromise between a manageable sample size and acceptable confidence.

Not exact matches

According to data provided to me by Rich Houseal of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Massachusetts is the most Catholic state in the nation.

Nate Silver, the most trusted prognosticator and statistician in the country, gave Clinton a 71.8 % chance of winning.

Not only that, in my opinion and most of the scientists and statisticians I've discussed this with, the MDs that publish are still... deficient (sorry folks).

They often require input from a wide variety of people including medics, statisticians, and clinical research associates, who usually have the most comprehensive knowledge of trial procedures and access to all the bits of information that are not found anywhere else.

The team of nutritionists, statisticians, and public - health experts started by studying models generated by food companies, but most were «haphazard» and «nontransparent,» according to Peter Scarborough, a mathematician in the group.

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

Perhaps the most unexpected and inexplicable defect of all in a book by a statistician is The Skeptical Environmentalists almost pervasive inattention to the ranges of estimates that exist for quantities of interest even inattention to the standard scientific practice of expressing quantities to a number of significant digits roughly commensurate with the precision to which the quantities are known.

Many statisticians had recommended that the federal government adopt the mathematical technique of sampling as the most accurate way to estimate how many people census takers were missing.

This is a discounted rate that includes most non - MD / PhDs involved in lung cancer research and treatment, including nurses, pharmacists, statisticians, respiratory therapists, patient advocates and all others interested in thoracic cancers.

«While it does not support causality, I don't think most genetic statisticians believe it excludes a causal pathway either.»

The EliteSingles approach: Our personality test is one of the most extensive out there, based on an algorithm implemented by psychologists and statisticians.

«It was one of the most unsophisticated, low - level analyses I've ever seen,» said Mary Beth Celio, a statistician at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education.

Shannon Mlodzinski, the statistician of the group, announced the results of the most recent assessment on improper fractions, distributing a list of students and scores.

VAM — evaluating teachers based on student test scores — has been disproved time and again, most recently by statisticians who aren't invested in the outcome.

I asked my statistician to scour the internet for what he thought was the most intelligent, insightful, educated theory of how Amazon's sales ranking works.

Thobjørn Nicolaisen 35 year old statistician from Copenhagen working in the financial industry as an analyst; generally likes most light - to - medium strategy games with push - your - luck elements combined with bluffing mechanics, as long as the art work is good, too.

The fact is, many scientists on both sides of the debate are not climate scientists, they are earth scientists, astrophysicists, palaeontologists, economists, statisticians, and here in Australia, one of the most vocal pro-AGW commentators is a professor of psychology.

I am not at all surprised that statisticians like this kind of stuff, but the errors are not in the statistics (for the most part), but in the underlying assumptions — and statisticians are not necessarily going to see that.

Most of the criticism has come from the work of two Canadian statisticians, Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, who have uncovered a misuse of data, a biased calibration procedure, and fundamental errors in the statistical methods.

Not only that, but some aspects (e.g. the statistical process applied in MBH) would be best analysed by an independent statistician who has little or no knowledge of climate science, because they are most likely to spot a lack of rigour or bias in the process, because they will view the data with a more independent eye.

Statistics is most certainly not «wholly subjective» and no, two statisticians will not give you different answers to the same question!

You may call it by a different name than statisticians, but it most definitely applies to biasing certain parameter estimates in an analysis!

Most people (statisticians or not) should look at climate time series and say «I see lots of up and down noise».

Among the approximately 45 participants at the most recent Heartland meeting were climate scientists, statisticians, meteorologists, engineers, biologists, lawyers and individuals familiar with how the federal government works.

I certainly don't think that, and in fact over the long term I suspect the people who will be most appalled by this mess are good statisticians.

Barton chose, instead, to engage a statistician (Wegman) from one of the most conservative institutions in the country (George Mason University) and to task him with setting up a team to dissect Mann's Hockey Stick.

* A professional statistician can easily assess the statistics in climate science — better than most climate scientists.

Ben: I suspect that the main problem in Climate Science is that most of the debate is driven by statisticians rather than engineers.

«Our current climate models are just not up to informed decision - making at the resolution of most countries,» says Leonard Smith, a statistician and climate analyst at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

This particular econonomist (McKitrick is not a statistician, by the way) has gotten the climate science and history wrong over and over, and continues to spew false accusations (see the most recent post here and many more besides).

2 Lord Monckton is a mathematician and statistician, his analysis of many aspects of the AGW debate are most effective because of the ability of mathematicians / statisticians to look at concepts systematically and logically.

Most talks are good (one isn't), but I especially recommend (statistician) Jim Bergman's presentation, including thoughful comments p. 19: «How can statisticians become involved?

The most gifted statistician or engineer may simply lack the skill to craft a resume - worthy sentence without relying too heavily on industry jargon and convoluted sentences.

Dr Kolko directed the trial, conceived of the design, designed and interpreted most of the analyses, and was responsible for most of the writing; Dr Campo contributed to the design of the trial, provided consultation during the trial, and helped to write and edit the manuscript; Dr Kilbourne offered recommendations on the organization of the manuscript, and helped to write and edit the manuscript; Mr Hart contributed to the design and conduct of all data analyses; Dr Sakolsky served as the consulting psychiatrist on the trial, offered recommendations on study measures, and helped to edit the manuscript; Dr Wisniewski served as the primary statistician on the project and contributed to the original clinical trial design / randomization scheme and made recommendations for the analytic plan; and all authors approved the final manuscript as submitted.

To start things off, Weimen Dong, our amazing statistician, and I reviewed the list of properties which were most viewed on coldwellbanker.com for the month of May.