Sentences with phrase «accurate than the mean»

Not exact matches

The missiles supposedly being readied for an assault on Guam are little more than a means to show off a new strategic capability, in this case the capacity to launch an accurate strike on a strategically important US target.

The process is a far more accurate way of producing these desirable mutations than using chemical means or radiation.

This means that more than half of all consumers would not qualify for a loan, if Mr. Zandi's statement is accurate.

Yes, I have on a few rare occasions taken cheap shots at people who were being deliberately stupid and or racists, fair enough; but other than that I welcome you to find a post where I've been unduly mean (not accurate mind you, mean).

While Eusebius can be regarded as a serious, though by no means always an accurate historian, the numerous Christian Acts of various apostles, none of them earlier than the middle of the second century, are for the most part fictional romances, full of pious legend, but of little or no use as history.

The motu proprio, he insists, «compromises thecoherence of the Church's self - understanding and threatens to reduce the liturgy to a simple matter of individual «taste» rather than what it is meant to be: an accurate reflection of what we believe as Catholic Christians who live in the twenty - first century»: for that, of course is utterly different from what Catholic Christians who lived in previous centuries (and in the twentieth century before the sixties) believed: hence, the absolute indefensibility of what he calls «this medieval rite».

This means that it is far more accurate to characterize Minkowski's fusion of space with time as a temporalization or dynamization of space than as a spatialization of time.

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

Does that mean that one list would be more accurate than the other?

If that is an accurate reflection of what really goes on (which I'm not at all sure about), it means PED's are more of a desperation move than a strategy.

Cleverley has made zero accurate through balls all season — this could be understood if you were the deepest lying defensive midfielder in the world but he's not, he's a general central midfielder by trade and you could argue he's meant to be more offensive than Michael Carrick.

NIPT looks at fetal DNA in the mother's blood and has been shown to be more accurate than traditional predecessors, which means fewer false alarms that trigger avoidable additional testing.

For the purpose of this response, «rig» means to intentionally affect the outcome of the election to such a degree as to enable the final outcome to be different than the outcome resulting solely from the «accurate and official» vote tally.

Cuomo has developed a long track record of making bold promises that he does not keep and, like many politicians, of making bold pronouncements that are less than accurate, but his willingness to attack critics, as he has attacked de Blasio, has generally meant that he has few people criticizing him.

The higher frequencies mean that optical clocks «tick» faster than microwave atomic clocks and could thus provide time - stamps that are 100 to 1,000 times more accurate, greatly improving the precision of GPS.

The Johns Hopkins scientists who conducted the trial said the finding is significant because measuring immune system responses directly in the lesions may be a more accurate way to evaluate so - called «therapeutic» vaccines than by the conventional means of blood analysis.

Professor Kathy Rastle, from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway said, «The results were striking; people who had focused on the meanings of the new words were much less accurate in reading aloud and comprehension than those who had used phonics, and our MRI scans revealed that their brains had to work harder to decipher what they were reading.»

And even if we assume it's accurate, when we consider that pH naturally rises and falls by about + / -0.5 over the course of a single decade, this means that natural changes in seawater pH occur at rates 100s of times faster than the trend attributed to anthropogenic CO2.

The fruit fly is the ideal animal model because the molecular structure of its ear is more similar to humans than that of rats or guinea pigs, meaning tests on fruit flies yield more accurate results.

The longer wavelength to be detected by ALMA's antennas means that although they are accurate to much less than the thickness of a single sheet of paper, the dishes do not need the mirror finish used for visible - light telescopes.

Asteroseismic surface gravities are substantially more precise and accurate than spectroscopic ones, and we find good agreement between their mean values and the calibrated spectroscopic surface gravities.

What that means is this: if you use a KNOWN HR max as your starting point, you'll be more accurate than if you use an age - predicted HR max number.

The proliferation of online dating sites and dating apps means Vancouver singles are dating more than ever — but there's a catch: online dating makes it EASIER to go on dates, but also HARDER to really connect with someone based only on photos or online profiles (which may or may not be accurate).

In fact the quality of the initial sign up process and sophisticated matching algorithm means this site is more likely than most to make accurate matches.

No accident, I think, that Runt gets to deliver the scene's punchline (something along the lines of how accurate it all is), as the muddy rivulets running off Chicken Little's main tributary mean more than I think they mean to mean.

Communication In the context of the leadership and the workplace, communication is more than the accurate transfer of information: it is the means to create trust within diverse and complex working relationships.

In response to the Common Core requirement for a more accurate measure of text complexity than offered by standard readability formulas, Pearson's Knowledge Technologies researchers developed Reading Maturity Metric (RMM) based on empirically derived growth in individual word meanings.

A lot of modern cars have an ecu - controlled temperature gauge as well, which means it tells you what the ecu wants you to see, not an accurate reading of the temperature (often characterised by the gauge constantly pointing to the same point in normal driving rather than fluctuating slightly with driving conditions)

The longer body, increased weight and higher centre of gravity mean it never feels as sharp as either the 3 Series saloon or Touring, but the rear - wheel - drive chassis and accurate steering ensure the 3 GT is still more fun to drive than most cars of this size.

The ability to operate «proactively» means that corrections to vehicle attitude are typically faster, more accurate and more subtle than traditional systems, making VDIM feel smooth and essentially transparent to the driver.

And if the stats are even close to accurate of a realtor selling your house from 10 - 15 % more than you'd do it yourself, that 10 - 15 % means a lot more on that 600k than it does the 60k.

This means that more than half of all consumers would not qualify for a loan, if Mr. Zandi's statement is accurate.

Although they suggested different means of implementing this approach (e.g., averaging the interest rate for the years in which the students in the cohort period received loans, or using the interest rates associated with the median length of time it took for students to complete the program), the commenters argued that determining an average interest rate based on the length of a program would provide more accurate calculations than using a six - year average interest rate for all GE programs.

Bark - activated products are often the most practical means of deterring inappropriate barking, and may be a better choice than owner - activated devices since they ensure immediate and accurate timing.

It's important to know your dog's neutral position in order to get an accurate reading about whether the dog is holding it higher or lower than usual and what that means.

(Dogs and cats have a sense of smell at least 1,000 times more accurate than ours and this is their primary means of perceiving the world.)

The only flipside to this open space that I could find is that it means gunplay does come down to whomever is more accurate rather than pure twitch shooting, so at least there's that.

What this means is that if a game runs faster than 30 FPS, the results will not be accurate should frame - rate go higher (blending artifacts from one frame to the next in some of the clips suggest it tops out at 30 FPS, but we'll check that for sure once we have the beta ourselves).

Aim Down Sights means that when you zoom in it is more accurate than shooting from the hip.

If this is accurate, it may be a minor difference in it's own right, but in the overall scheme of things, it means that the XB1 is technically weaker in every way than the PS4, yet more expensive.

Meaning they will unleash more accurate and damaging spells than you at a somewhat faster rate; which can dampen the gameplay.

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

Rather than thinking in terms of concepts like «nuanced», «alarmist», «front - page», and so forth, why not think in terms of concepts like «accurate», «honest», «responsible», «straight - forward», and «public good» (meaning the latter term in a genuine sense)?

Tonyb — This post and commentary strike me as less than a reliable means of acquiring accurate information about the benefits and costs of CO2 mitigation in the UK.

«This post and commentary strike me as less than a reliable means of acquiring accurate information about the benefits and costs of CO2 mitigation in the UK.

I think that the observed length of day is more real than the lod measured by radio telescopes using distant quasars, the fact that the Earths orbit is elliptical and that the Earth is inclined to the rotation gives us real changes here on Earth (just because something is more accurate does not mean more relevant).

If the prior distribution of the parameter is accurate, the Bayesian estimate has a smaller mean square error than the maximum likelihood estimate.

This is a separate issue from whether TTLS is more accurate than ridge, which is what the reviewer seems to be implying by the term «bias» — perhaps meaning that the ridge estimator is not a variance - unbiased estimator.

It is now clear to me at 60, and having seen where late stage corporate capitalism is headed, I will find many more levels of meaning and accurate prediction in «1984» than I ever noticed previously.

Unless the prior is accurate, the Bayesian point estimate will have a higher mean square error than the maximum likelihood point estimate.