Sentences with phrase «advanced statistical techniques»

Then they used advanced statistical techniques to isolate temperature effects from other variables, such as changes in policies and financial cycles.

The system employs advanced statistical techniques to achieve the best fit to scientifically validate information on loss, measured as a probability.

These algorithms analyze masses of data by means of advanced statistical techniques in search of patterns that can be used to make determinations or predictions.

His main interest at OSLC is in applying advanced statistical techniques to prospective longitudinal data on substance abuse behaviors and their consequences, and to develop new methods of effect sizes and confidence interval estimation for findings from latent growth and multilevel modeling of continuous and categorical outcomes.

First, research all - too - often relies on single - item assessments of mate preferences precluding more advanced statistical techniques like factor analysis.

Though private school students long have scored higher on the national assessment, commonly referred to as «the nation's report card,» the new study used advanced statistical techniques to adjust for the effects of income, school and home circumstances.

In addition to applying advanced statistical techniques, 7 asset managers and index providers often mitigate estimation errors — and address other minimum - variance implementation issues — by imposing constraints on the optimization process.

«What really gave us some unique capabilities to try to ask those questions in a really objective way was a collaboration with Bala Rajaratnam and his group who are very expert in advanced statistical techniques,» Diffenbaugh said.

By using meta - analysis, an advanced statistical technique that analyzes many studies at the same time, they performed rigorous testing to determine whether the beneficial effect of adding biochar depends on geography.

They will exploit a combination of state - of - the - art climate model experiments, advanced statistical techniques and idealised dynamical frameworks to accomplish the project.

Diffenbaugh said the research requires three elements: a long record of climate observations; a large collection of climate model experiments that accurately simulate the observed variations in climate; and advanced statistical techniques to analyze both the observations and the climate models.

Cohen received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from Columbia University in 1994 and has since focused on conducting numerical experiments with global climate models and advanced statistical techniques to better understand climate variability and to improve climate prediction.