Sentences with phrase «advanced statistical approaches»

Although value - added is one of the more advanced statistical approaches, researchers have raised concerns about its reliability, as well as potential unintended consequences, such as demoralizing teachers and placing greater emphasis on standardized tests.

The researchers used advanced statistical approaches to study the data collected between 2001 and 2011 as part of the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

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«New statistical approach will help researchers better determine cause - effect: Research will advance faster.»

To find out how average monthly temperatures had changed from 1847 to 2013, the researchers used an advanced statistical time series approach to figure out what changes in temperature were due to natural variability and what changes represented a long - term trend.

Overall, the discipline has not gone through the paradigm shift in the statistical approach to data that more advanced techniques, such as forensic DNA testing, have already adopted: the shift to Bayesian statistics.

It is this that people are buying into rather than the more statistical approaches that work very effectively for advanced exploration companies.

Berkeley Earth uses modern and advanced statistics in several of our papers, and we know that experts in climate change are not necessarily the best people to evaluate novel statistical approaches.

To advance our understanding of contextual processes such as received social support and unsupportive interactions, it appears beneficial to use a research design that repeatedly assesses daily occurring events (e.g., stress, social support) and outcomes (i.e., negative and positive mood) over time, coupled with a statistical approach that permits the evaluation of within - person relations.