Sentences with phrase «by statisticians in»

> One of the main barriers to increased prticipation by statisticians in climate science is the time necessary to come up to speed in the new field and to adequately understand the statistical issues faced by the scientists he is working with.

About Blog «R» is a language and open - source software used as a standard by statisticians in the development of statistical software.

About Blog «R» is a language and open - source software used as a standard by statisticians in the development of statistical software.

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The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

It's written by Gates» late friend, Swedish statistician and global health expert Hans Rosling, and Rosling's son and daughter - in - law, who helped finish the book after he died in 2017.

The disparity between a nation's top and lowest earners is generally represented by the Gini Co-Efficient, coined by Italian statistician Corrado Gini in 1912.

Another study, co-authored in 2014 by Michael Wolfson, Canada's former chief statistician, found that the wealthiest Canadians disproportionately take advantage of the preferential small business tax rate.

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

An Analysis of the Economic Circumstances of Canadian Seniors, authored by statistician Richard Shillington of Tristat Resources and released by the Broadbent Institute, also shows the Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) guarantee levels are falling behind and trends in income sources for seniors suggest that high poverty rates among seniors will further increase.

In fact, women have made progress in some STEM fields — in 1987 only 23 % of mathematicians, statisticians, and actuaries were women; by 2015 this share increased to 67 In fact, women have made progress in some STEM fields — in 1987 only 23 % of mathematicians, statisticians, and actuaries were women; by 2015 this share increased to 67 in some STEM fields — in 1987 only 23 % of mathematicians, statisticians, and actuaries were women; by 2015 this share increased to 67 in 1987 only 23 % of mathematicians, statisticians, and actuaries were women; by 2015 this share increased to 67 %.

The Dow Jones & Company was formed by Charles Dow, statistician Edward Jones and journalist Charles Bergstresser in 1882.

The government's Statistician General said all consumption data in the media and issued by some government agencies were either outdated or guesstimates.

In his statement Wednesday, Mr. Rajan reiterated his skepticism about the sharply revised GDP figures released recently by government statisticians.

According to data provided to me by Rich Houseal of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Massachusetts is the most Catholic state in the nation.

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).

Well - briefed pieces appeared in both the Independent and the Daily Mail, though the interesting nuggets about Rodgers feeling isolated and bypassed by those he was working with are rather lost behind the blasts of the trumpets against the monstrous regiment of statisticians.

(These assists are judged not for the last touch but by the subjective view of the club statistician for a crucial part played in the goal).

[2] The only matched population study, comparing 1,046 homebirths with 1,046 hospital births, was published in 1977 by Dr. Lewis Mehl, a family physician and medical statistician.

The randomisation was done by the study statisticians who had no involvement in enrolment or follow - up of participants

Randomly generated numbers were provided by a statistician who was not involved in the recruitment process.

Announcing the GDP figures in Accra, the Government Statistician, Dr. Philomena Nyarko, said the growth in the economy continues to be driven by the services sector which contributed 60.1 percent to the national average.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

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.

More than just the world's best - selling puzzle, Rubik's Cube has helped teach mathematics and problem solving, and has inspired projects by everyone from statisticians to artists (two groups rarely mentioned in the same sentence).

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.

In a debate long dominated by industry voices, statistician and technology expert Norman Matloff speaks up for the little people

It was developed by Prof Cang Hui, a bio-mathematician from Stellenbosch University, in collaboration with two researchers from the United States of America, Prof Gordon A Fox, a statistician from the University of South Florida, and Prof Jessica Gurevitch, a well - known ecologist from Stony Brook University.

«STS public reporting uses a measurement system that was developed by surgeons, in conjunction with statisticians; all our measures are completely transparent and published in peer - reviewed journals.

The PNAS paper, written by Romy van der Lee and Naomi Ellemers of Leiden University's Institute of Psychology, is an example of a classic statistical trap, says statistician Casper Albers of the University of Groningen, who tore the paper apart in a blog post yesterday.

The Bradford - Hill criteria were devised in 1965 by British epidemiologist and statistician Sir Austin Bradford Hill to assess causality when only correlational data are available.

The team of nutritionists, statisticians, and public - health experts started by studying models generated by food companies, but most were «haphazard» and «nontransparent,» according to Peter Scarborough, a mathematician in the group.

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.

Instead, it cited a report commissioned by Congressman Barton from three statisticians with no background in climate science, who quibbled with aspects of Mann's methodology.

The least one ought to be able to expect in a book by a statistician is (a) clear specification of what is being depicted by the numbers that are presented and (b) appropriate indication of the magnitudes of uncertainties (as reflected, for example, in the range of respectable estimates of a quantity of interest).

Perhaps the most unexpected and inexplicable defect of all in a book by a statistician is The Skeptical Environmentalists almost pervasive inattention to the ranges of estimates that exist for quantities of interest even inattention to the standard scientific practice of expressing quantities to a number of significant digits roughly commensurate with the precision to which the quantities are known.

The NRC report, from a panel chaired by statistician Keith Rust of Westat Inc., in Rockville, Maryland, backs the bureau's proposal to adopt sampling.

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.

The concept of body mass index, or BMI, was introduced in the 19th century by the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet.

The randomization sequence was provided by the study statistician in an opaque sealed envelope to the study pharmacists.

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.

One study, conducted by a group of distinguished statisticians, John Barnard, Constantine Frangakis, Jennifer Hill, and Donald Rubin (hereinafter referred to as Barnard), has confirmed our first - year results but has been virtually ignored in the public media.

The study — conducted by William L. Sanders, the statistician who pioneered the concept of «value - added» analysis of teaching effectiveness — found that there was basically no difference in the achievement levels of students whose teachers earned the prestigious NBPTS credential, those who tried but failed to earn it, those who never tried to get the certification, or those who earned it after the student...

It has been our task to equalize the information field and democratize it by training ethnic media journalists in data mining, data visualizations and offering platforms for collaboration with statisticians, cartographers, designers, developers and programmers.

Statisticians began the effort last year by ranking all the teachers using a statistical method known as value - added modeling, which calculates how much each teacher has helped students learn based on changes in test scores from year to year.

First, I will start by saying that the title of this article is misleading in that what this «little - known» statistician contributed to the field of education was hardly «little» in terms of its size and impact.

VAM — evaluating teachers based on student test scores — has been disproved time and again, most recently by statisticians who aren't invested in the outcome.

Our methodological contributions are routinely featured in leading journals and used by statisticians and psychometricians around the world.

The X1 is treated by industry sales statistician VFACTS as a luxury SUV, but in size and pricing, it's closer to the Volkswagen.

A recent analysis of shelter data by an independent group of citizens, with the help of UCLA statisticians, has shown that dramatic drops in intake have been conclusively shown to be driving parallel drops in euthanasia.

Each round is performed by a statistician, expert in software application and interpretation, who must curate and model the OFA data.

By statisticians and experts in international tourism Croatia has been a top tourism destination and the biggest tourist surprise in the Mediterranean tourism in the past few years.