Sentences with phrase «while statistical studies»

While statistical studies document a relationship between climate variability and conflict, there remains much disagreement about whether climate change directly causes violent conflicts.

While statistical studies on extremes are plagued by signal - to - noise issues and only give unequivocal results in a few cases with good data (like for temperature extremes), we have another, more useful source of information: physics.

Not exact matches

While statistical margins of error are arguably not applicable to online panels / online studies of this nature, we have assumed that the same margins of error apply as if it were a true unweighted random probability sample with a margin of error of + / - 3.7 percentage points, nineteen times out of twenty.

The result was that there was no statistical impact on the run, so the study concluded that «Omega 3 Chia loading appears a viable option for enhancing performance for endurance events lasting > 90 minutes and allows athletes to decrease their dietary intake of sugar while increasing their intake of Omega 3 fatty acids but offered no performance advantages.»

While ZMapp seemed to help more people survive an Ebola infection, it narrowly missed the statistical threshold that researchers set to prove the drug's effectiveness, according to the new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

While combining data from many studies improves statistical power, the researchers note that the associations between hormonal contraception and risk of becoming infected with HIV were attenuated for studies at lower risk of methodological bias compared to those at higher risk of bias, suggesting that some of the risk found to be associated with hormonal contraception may be due to bias in the original studies.

This estimate, while in line with suggestions from previous linguistic studies, is a more robust result because it was found consistently in the majority of the different statistical models of evolution tested in this study.

An increasing number of journals, including Nature and Science, have adopted measures such as checklists for study design and reporting while improving statistical review and encouraging access to data and protocols.

As journalist Ed Yong has reported, psychologists often goose up the statistical significance of their research to get it published, while failed replication studies regularly get rejected by psychology journals.

While I am not stating that this study is invalid, I just want to make it clear that the results are based on statistical data gathering as opposed to a biological in vitro or in vivo study.

The additional two human studies were split, with one of them supporting cooling, while another lacked statistical significance to show icing's efficacy.

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

While our studies use data from different states and years, and employ somewhat different statistical methods, they yield very similar results on the value of additional instructional days for student performance.

Finally, while the motivation of the entire study was to investigate the role and effect of different state policies, the only policies RAND's researchers actually built into their main statistical models were differences in per - pupil spending, student - teacher ratios, and other resource variables.

As per an article in The Albuquerque Journal, he «stressed that numerous studies [emphasis added] show that teachers make a big impact on student success,» expressly contradicting the American Statistical Association (ASA) on the stand, while also (only) referencing (non-representative) studies of primarily his econ - friends (e.g. Raj Chetty, Eric Hanushek, Doug Staiger) and studies of his own (e.g, as per his Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies).

While it is true that the DeAngelis study does not provide absolute proof of A causing B — a near impossibility when studying children — the sophisticated statistical methods utilized was in fact created to approximate causal relationships.

While there are few statistical studies on the number of overweight cats, it has been suggested that the numbers are similar to those in dogs, with up to 40 % of feline companions being overweight.

But while this «study stew» produced the appearance of a slightly elevated risk of premature death among high - dose vitamin E users, the reported «increase» was exceedingly small — too small to be considered reliable, particularly given the crudeness of the statistical method used to obtain it.

While at Bren, she studied with the late Bill Freudenberg, a sociologist, and benefited from the insights of Bren professor Bruce Kendall, an ecologist having expertise in statistical methods.

The studies, appearing this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, find that while there is a statistical snafu in the hockey - stick math, it may not strongly affect the graph's accuracy.

While this method is useful to gain context specific insights into the effectiveness of climate policies, statistical studies based on large sample sizes allow analysts to control for various factors and yield generalizable results.

A while ago, a group of researchers conducted a statistical study and compiled a report of the top ten car insurance companies in the United States, based on each company's total annual revenue.

Built programs to create SAS datasets from the clinical database, external data sources, and other sources while following the clinical study's protocol or statistical plans.

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While many universal studies report non-significant results (Merry et al., 2004, 2011), there is evidence that statistical power may be a problem.

Our study also has key strengths: 1) analyses were based on a community sample and we were able to estimate the burden of behavioural problems associated with food insecurity among children in the general population, while most prior studies focused on high - risk families; 2) longitudinal follow - up of children's mental health allowed us to distinguish different types of symptoms and their developmental patterns over up to 7 years of follow - up; 3) statistical adjustment for multiple individual and family factors potentially associated with children's outcomes.