Sentences with phrase «about effect sizes»

I learned about effect sizes and their, well, effects.

I never even thought about the effect the sizes can have for those women with eating disorders!!

There is zero mention anywhere in the paper about any effect size over 0.63.

Here is one way of putting this: Why exactly should I care about the effect size of the human contribution to climate or extreme weather probabilities?

Not exact matches

The odds ratio, a 26 percent increase in premature death, is about the same effect size as obesity.

Where a work schedule of 60 or more hours per week is continued longer than about two months, the cumulative effect of decreased productivity will cause a delay in the completion date beyond that which could have been realized with the same crew size on a 40 - hour week.

That may say more about the social norms and sizes (most are pretty small) of those countries than the incentive effects of lower tax rates.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

Creationists can now bring their kids to their own state - of - the - art museum — with computer - generated effects and life - size displays — where they can gawk at dinosaur bones and hear about how the Tyrannosaurus fits into a literalistic biblical worldview.

But despite their delicious appeal, cheeses of all shapes and sizes have fallen out of favour in recent years amidst growing concerns about the fat content and negative health effects of the dairy delicacy.

For a recipe this size, I would try about 1/4 teaspoon - it will effect the flavor but not take over.

The baby is about the size of a lime, and you won't yet be feeling the effects of baby weight on your internal organs.

I still have reservations, however, about the size of the effect and whether or not we are focused on the right outcomes.

When the updated standards went into effect in 2012, negative media attention about portion sizes and students» acceptance of the new menus affected the reception of the standards in some regions.

An emerging body of literature in adults has begun to establish clear associations between gut microbiome composition and a wide range of health outcomes.1 - 6 In contrast, comparatively little is known about the gut microbiome in infants and children, the exposures that shape it, and its lifelong health effects.7 Although limited in their size and scope, a number of studies have established associations between intestinal microbiome profiles in infants, delivery mode, and / or breast milk exposure.8 - 15 These factors both have long - term health consequences.

Note the distorting effect of the iPhone lens — shot from below, we get a nice Mt. Rushmore effect, but in the real world I don't really have a Hellboy - style massive left arm (in the uncropped version, my hand is about the size of my head) and David and Will are actually much closer to the same height.

Holding everything else constant, when a majority is more than about 4.5 %, the incumbent bonus is outweighed by the effect of the size of a majority.

Most of the public will not engage in arguments about the size of the state, but public sector workers (who did not cause the current crisis) will feel its effects.

Our results don't really allow us to accurately predict the size of the effect — they're more about providing evidence that the relationship is actually causal, rather than the result of confounding or common risk factors.»

Harry Potter also appeared to encourage opposition to punitive policies — gauged by responses to questions about the use of torture, killing terrorists, and support for the death penalty — though the effect size was small.

And the results of the P - curves suggested that about 95 percent of the recent studies and those from a decade earlier had a large enough effect size, or the size of the difference in the effect being studied.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

Their main objective was to see how translocating fishers — in this case moving them from the study area to reintroduce them to the northern Sierra Nevada mountains — influenced their numbers; researchers also wanted to learn about the effects fishers and other predators of similar size have on each other.

«There's been quite a bit of research that shows how larger carnivores have negative effects on fishers, but this is some of first research to look at their interactions with carnivores of about their same size,» said Green, whose group also included researchers from North Carolina State University, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Knowledge about both the maternal age effect and the bottleneck size is useful in family planning.

This similarity in structure and history allowed us to look at effects of island size, without having to worry about other differences among islands.»

Of the 796 papers manually reviewed by the Ioannidis team that contained empirical data, only 111 reported effect sizes and only 18 reported confidence intervals (a measure of the uncertainty about the magnitude of the effect).

The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the global ocean's surface area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.

Once the anesthetic has taken effect, the doctor will make a minimum of 2 small incisions, each incision being about the size of a pencil eraser tip, and remove the necessary quantity of fat with a water - assisted suction device.

Moreover, some of our analyses, particularly some of the count - based histopathological analyses in the older cohorts, are limited, as sample sizes were too low to draw definitive conclusions about possible effects of rapamycin or the absence thereof.

All the big bros training with you are natty, until you start education yourself on the subject of steroid more and learn about the positive effects they have on muscle strength and size, but also on the negative effects as well.

[5][6] But since the effect of muscle hyperplasia on overall muscle size compared to hypertrophy is rather small you shouldn't worry about it much.

aSummary effect size is not shown owing to concern about publication bias for this outcome.

The screen in the AMC / Loews on 34th St. seems to be about a quarter the size of a true IMAX screen and the 3D effect, while used subtly and to good effect here, suffered from more crosstalk (ghosting) than I'm used to seeing in high quality 3D theaters.

However, for me, probably the most insightful information presented was about challenges the effect team had to overcome in prepping the original Jurassic Park, specifically the «evolution» of the dinosaurs from stop - motion models a la Ray Harryhausen to a combination of full - size animatronic and CGI models.

The effect on 11th - grade enrollment is about half the size (9 percentage points), and there is no impact on persistence into 12th grade.

IO: The bullying programs that are reported about in other published work are reporting certain effect sizes.

The size of this estimated effect is similar to the effect of a larger black population, about 2 percent greater enrollment in charter schools accompanying a one - standard - deviation increase in the fraction of college - educated adults in the state.

• Duke researchers Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, and Jacob Vigdor found that being taught by a sub for 10 days per year has a larger effect on a child's math scores than if he'd changed schools, and about half the size of the difference between students from well - to - do and poor families.

The Duke researchers found that being taught by a sub for 10 days a year has a larger effect on a child's math score than if he'd changed schools, and about half the size of the effect of poverty.

(In five countries — Australia, France, Hong Kong, Scotland, and the United States — our strategy led to inconclusive estimates that do not allow for any confident assertions about the effects of differences in class size.)

Hattie analyzed a total of about 800 meta - analyses, encompassing 52,637 studies, 146,142 effect sizes, and millions of students (p. 15).

In addition, while regulators care about average effect sizes, practitioners want to know whether a given intervention will work in their own classrooms.

And in return, Hanushek has embedded his conclusion about the lack of class - size effects in a broader endorsement of a conservative educational agenda.

The range in claimed impact reflects the fact that they sometimes admit to uncertainty about the exact effect size from a specific program.

So, Slate is consistently wrong about the nature, size, and effects of Sweden's private school sector and the competition it has engendered.

When Sappi stopped making pulp products in 1999, eliminating both the stench and about 300 jobs, it didn't have much effect on the town's size: the foul air had been keeping away at least as many people as the jobs had been keeping around.

John Hattie, in his mega-meta-analysis, has suggested that the average effect size of an educational intervention is about 0.4, and argues that we -LSB-...]

-LSB-...] If you had asked me before reading, I would have placed it as an important contributor, but it surprised me that it topped just about everything else on the list of effect sizes (although, Hattie's latest book puts two new impacters just above it you can find that here).

Hello, I am about to buy the book but I wondered if someone could just quickly fill me in here on what statistic is being used to represent the effect size, e.g. r or r ^ 2 or z?