Sentences with phrase «by statisticians at»

«A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environmentally sensitive practices people might employ their entire lives — things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy - efficient appliances and light bulbs.»

A recent study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and -LSB-...]

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Richard John Neuhaus notes that the decennial study of church membership conducted by the Glenmary Research Center and sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has confirmed the phenomenon highlighted in Dean Kelley's 1972 Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (While We're At It, January).

But there's still clearly a big gap to bridge,» Kevin McConway, statistician at Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K., said in a statement distributed by the United Kingdom's Science Media Centre (SMC) today.

A somewhat obscure study on statistical methods published in 2009 by medical statistician Ying Lu at Stanford University, California in a specialty journal on clinical trials, was downloaded 2000 times in early August, making it the hottest paper among Stanford University's 5439 registered users.

At the University of Illinois Urbana — Champaign, political statistician Wendy Tam Cho has designed algorithms to draw district maps that use the criteria mandated by state law, but do not include partisan information such as an area's voting history.

But such surveys are subjective, flimsy and open to manipulation by the universities themselves, says Harvey Goldstein, a social statistician at the University of Bristol.

Lead study author Ramal Moonesinghe, a statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says that for simplicity's sake his group ignored the possibility that results can be replicated by repeating the same biases.

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

This result supports a theory first published in 2007 by senior author Michael Wigler, a CSHL professor, and Dr. Kenny Ye, a statistician at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

As first part of our selection of depression treatment trials, we accessed antidepressant trial data that were reviewed by the physicians, scientists and statisticians at the FDA and reported in SBA reports.

Married for 35 years with no children, and nearing the age of 60, she has just been informed by her faithful husband — at least as far as she knows — that he wants, not a divorce, but her consent to an affair he's determined to have with a 28 - year - old statistician.

The methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this Backgrounder are entirely the work of statisticians and economists in the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) at The Heritage Foundation, and have not been endorsed by, and do not necessarily reflect the views of, the developers of NEMS.

The methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this report are entirely the work of statisticians and economists at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis and have not been endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of the developers of NEMS.

It is a fascinating story with many aspects to it including the cliques and peer reviews you mention Steve McIntyre has been deconstructing Mann's theory graph by graph, proxy by proxy, formula by formula Heavyweight statisticians like Wegman are now getting on board and the theories are starting to unravel We find ourselves at a very interesting stage in the theory of Global Warming

The same thing statistician Richard L. Smith meant when he spoke about Mann's Hockey Stick at a Congressional briefing sponsored by the American Statistical Association.

Authors also included David Legates, who has received funding by various industry groups such as the American Petroleum Institute, Charles G. Koch Caritable Foundation, Southern Company, and Exxonmobil; William M. Briggs, a statistician; Michael Limburg, vice president of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) that has co-hosted climate change denial events with the Heartland Institute; Dietrich Jeschke from the University of Applied Sciences in Flensburg, Germany; and James Morrison, whose only listing is as an undergraduate in Environmental Scienes at the University of West Anglia.

This has been criticised by statistician Steve Jewson in comments at RealClimate, who claims that the IPCC should not use sensitivity studies that use uniform priors.

His claim is examined by statistician «Tamino» at this site — though you already know the basic answer, from having read this article:

Necessary steps to deliver on these requirements for observed land surface temperatures were discussed at a meeting held at the UK Met Office in September 2010 attended by climate scientists, measurement scientists, statisticians, economists and software / IT specialists.

The only way a statistician is going to be able to advance the subject is by taking the time to familiarize himself with it at a professional level, not by jumping in to debate one narrow point.

The theme of the conference was evidence - based policy and featured a plenary talk by Munir A. Sheikh, the former Chief Statistician at Statistics Canada who championed the long - form census.

FiveThirtyEight fivethirtyeight.com FiveThirtyEight is the site helmed by Nate Silver, the celebrity statistician at the forefront of «data driven» journalism, and the stories here supplement traditional reporting with charts, graphs, and statistics to provide a more quantifiable take on current events.