Sentences with phrase «by statisticians who»

The Lulu Titlescorer has been developed exclusively for Lulu by statisticians who studied the titles of 50 years» worth of top bestsellers and identified which title attributes separated the bestsellers from the rest.

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.

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

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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 irony of Chervenak and colleagues who are leading the anti-home birth crusade is that by polarizing the issue, no one can have a reasonable discussion to try and figure how to do this best,» says Eugene Declercq, a Boston University School of Public Health professor and a CDC statistician.

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

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.

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.

It was written by a working group that included an academic statistician, biometric engineer, a psychologist who focuses on decision making and judgment and a forensic scientist.

Online dating software has been built by statisticians, engineers, and nerds - and maybe nerds are the ones who need to start breaking it down.

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...

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

The exhibition, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Reynard Loki, takes its name from the title of a 2010 special report published by The Economist that observed the emergence of «a new kind of professional... the data scientist, who combines the skills of software programmer, statistician and storyteller / artist to extract the nuggets of gold hidden under mountains of data.»

These trends are derived from exactly the same data as those used in the original figure, that was used to argue that the global warming had stopped — by two professors and a statistician, the very same who performed curve - fitting and removed data not fitting their conclusion.

Where statistics is involved (in much science it seems), the institution frequently audits, via independent analysis by house statisticians who do not know what the data represents.

People who've been following the debate about global warming closely will be aware that the economic modelling used in projections of future climate change by the IPCC has been severely criticised by former Australian Statistician Ian Castles and former OECD chief economist David Henderson.

UHI is under estimated, the homogenization method is not accepted by statisticians outside of the small club who created the technique — the climate-gate emails showed severe uncertainties and lack of knowledge of proper analytical and statistical techniques, and even suppression of information, even if this is more common practice than people believe... just unacceptable.

Not only that, but some aspects (e.g. the statistical process applied in MBH) would be best analysed by an independent statistician who has little or no knowledge of climate science, because they are most likely to spot a lack of rigour or bias in the process, because they will view the data with a more independent eye.

The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled that the University of East Anglia violated the Freedom of Information Act by withholding raw data requested by Stephen McIntyre, the Canadian statistician and businessman who earlier exposed Michael Mann's «hockey stick» fraud.

No, he said, and that was why he had taken care to anonymize the data and send them to a statistician, who had confirmed the obvious: since the same technique, applied to the same data, could produce precisely opposite results depending upon a careful choice of the endpoints for the multiple trend - lines that the IPCC's bureaucrats had superimposed on the perfectly correct graph of 150 years of temperature changes that the scientists had submitted, the technique must be defective and any results obtained by its use must be meaningless.

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.

I certainly don't think that, and in fact over the long term I suspect the people who will be most appalled by this mess are good statisticians.

I am pretty sure that the paleoclimatologists who create the reconstructions have much valuable knowledge overlooked by the statisticians, who criticize their work for deviating from standard practices.

A statistician makes a claim that the mathematics being used by a climatologist are inaccurate, and the climatologist cites another climatologist (as an authority) who backs up his claim, THIS is an appeal to authority fallacy.

North, a climate expert chosen by the NAS, would be a much more obvious choice than Wegman, a statistician chosen by Republican politicians who deny AGW.

They are backed by our chief scientist, who developed our predictive ranking algorithm, and an advisory board of top mathematicians and statisticians.

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.

A statistician is an individual who earns his livelihood by using and applying the principles from statistics to the daily activities.