Sentences with phrase «by this correlation as»

However, these variables would be confounded by correlation as the habitats favourable to cattle would also be favoured by feral cats (e.g. riparian areas), irrespective of impacts of cattle.

These authors make the completely unsurprising point that that there is a correlation between ENSO indices and global mean temperature — something that has been well known for decades — and then go on to claim that that all trends are explained by this correlation as well.

Not exact matches

And just as we frequently mistake correlation for causation, we're susceptible to what's called the «gambler's fallacy,» the belief that anomalies from expected outcomes in a random process are likely to be evened out by their opposites in the future — or, more simply, the idea that a roulette ball that's landed eight straight times on black is therefore more likely on the ninth spin to land on red.

Where the bond ETF is negatively correlated to the Composite (one zigs, the other zags), the preferred ETF has a low but positive correlation (one zigs, the other usually zigs too but not by as much).

For all the reasons listed above, the correlation between these two factors is actually very weak, as demonstrated by Tim Koller, Jack Murrin, and Thomas E. Copeland in Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (p. 80).

By contrast, when inflation is higher and more volatile — as it was in the 1970s — the correlation between stocks and bonds increases.

By now you'll no doubt see the obvious correlations between them all as well, and the really interesting thing about it all is that in each and every one of them, both the ones I have reported on here as well as others we are yet to review, the lessons we take from them are not to be found in academic institutions.

As illustrated by the rolling correlation, an investor operating in real time with inception - to - date data may develop different, dynamic beliefs.

It's not as though stock markets went up due to above trend growth or productivity and it's hard not to look at a chart of the returns generated by long - dated gilts and property over the last 30 years and not see some correlation.

The timing of this correlation is just as remarkable as that for tops, as demonstrated by the comments underneath the graph of stock prices in Figure 1.

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Looking back over the past 25 years, a period of low and stable inflation, stock / bond correlation has generally moved in tandem with monetary policy, as measured by the effective federal funds rate.

That correlation jumped by more than 50 % as the world focused on the turmoil in Asia.

They will then diversify among investments within the assets classes, such as by selecting stocks from various sectors that tend to have low return correlation, or by choosing stocks with different market capitalizations.

The American Search for Peace: Moral Reasoning, Religious Hope, and National Security edited by George Weigel and John R. Langan Georgetown University Press, 281 pages, $ 30 The «correlation of forces,» as the Marxists used to say, has dramatically transformed the international arena in the last few years, and some of these essays may not take that adequately into account.

And even if all rough correlations could be made smooth by convoluted arguments about cloud covers and the like, the two Genesis accounts themselves, taken as chronologies, do not agree.

You should know by now, as has been pointed out several times, that supposed correlation is not causation.

The first 110,000 annual layers of snow in that ice core (GISP2) have been visually counted and corroborated by two to three different and independent methods as well as by correlation with volcanic eruptions and other datable events.

At its beginning, the outcome of the Cold War was by no means self - evident, given the «correlation of forces,» as Marxists used to say.

Others have insisted that their work is social - scientific in the strong sense of the term — that is, as work guided by the correlation of models and data, as are more purely sociological and social - psychological studies.

It is especially important for Old Testament study because, as almost every page of the Old Testament testifies, this correlation was deemed by Israel herself to be of prime importance!

By «metaphysics in the strict sense,» one properly means metaphysica generalis, or ontology, although from the standpoint of a neoclassical theism there can be no adequate distinction between ontology, on the one hand, and theology and cosmology, as disciplines of metaphysica specialis, on the other.1 From this standpoint, ontology is also theology in the sense that its constitutive concept «reality as such» necessarily involves the distinction / correlation between the one necessarily existing individual and the many contingently existing individuals and events.

Nevertheless, Whitehead is understandably reluctant to endorse the phenomenalist implications of his first version, since it seems to create a schism between the philosophic account of sign interpretation given in terms of correlations between experiences and the world as described by physics and the other sciences.

Unless we are to suppose that there is little or no correlation between the initial aim and the final form of the subjective aim — a very strange supposition — we must assume vast differences in the initial aims derived from God by a primitive man and by an Einstein, or for that matter, between myself as I drop off to sleep in the evening and as I write these words.

The historian's detection of the kerygma at the centre of the Gospels found a formal analogy in the contemporary view of historiography as concerned with underlying meaning, and this correlation led to the view that the kind of quest of the historical Jesus envisaged by the nineteenth century not only can not succeed, but is hardly appropriate to the intention of the Gospels and the goal of modern historiography.

Though correlation doesn't necessarily connote causation, it is interesting to note that 9 of the 10 most religious states in the US, as revealed by a 2008 Gallup poll of more than 355,000 adults in the U.S. regarding the importance of religion in their lives, are also on the CDC's list of the 10 fattest states.

By careful «epistemic correlation,» he seeks to bring these two elements or realms of discourse together as a basis for belief in God.

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The point on a plane is represented in algebra by its two coordinates x and y, and the condition satisfied by any point on the locus is represented by the corresponding correlation between x and y. Finally to correlations expressible in some general algebraic form, such as ax + by = c, there correspond loci of some general type, whose geometrical conditions are all of the same form.

«In the Carabao Cup, after winning last season, we lost in the quarter - final but we lost like Manchester United likes to lose — with dignity, with fair play, with participation in the happiness of a giant killer,» he is quoted as saying by The Sun, who make a direct correlation between Mourinho's comments and City.

When the 2000s rolled around and CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) emerged as a real correlation with the game of football, the NFL and others followed the noble example of tobacco companies by falsifying research, denying all charges, and focusing on selling the product to children.

As you can see, there's a direct correlation between decreasing public support and increasing profits as evidenced by the return on investmenAs you can see, there's a direct correlation between decreasing public support and increasing profits as evidenced by the return on investmenas evidenced by the return on investment.

When you consider that, in essence, the three players who got the most goals, not including Torres, last season (as well as the two players who contributed the most assists in Dirk Kuyt, 7, and Raul Meireles, 5) have been replaced by Stewart Downing (0 goals out of 27 attempts and no assists), Jordan Henderson (1 from 12 and no assists) and Andy Carroll (2 from 28 and no assists) there does seem to be a correlation to that suggests legitimate reasoning as to why goals have been difficult to come by.

What they found was a startlingly strong correlation between the number of categories of trauma each patient had endured as a child and the likelihood that he or she had been afflicted by a variety of medical conditions as an adult.

Once the data were adjusted for confounding variables such as family income or disruptions such as divorce, there was a small but significant correlation between longer breastfeeding and better conduct scores, as assessed by the mothers.

However, the use of the question on consumption of oily fish as an indicator of maternal DHA status is supported by the correlation between the frequency of intake of oily fish with the amount of DHA in the maternal red blood cell membranes (Figure 1).

As we can see, the hypothesis that UKIP vote is driven by experience of change in the local area can be rejected — in fact Pearson correlations between UKIP vote and increases in the share of each immigrant group are negative.

In yet another scatterplot analysis of correlation between gun ownership and murder rate by country (again, using Wikipedia as the source), the author find a negative correlation between gun ownership and rate of homicide.

In doing so, we did find a statistically significant positive correlation between performance and voting intention as measured by Public Policy Polling data around the same time.

This doesn't directly answer your question, which is about studies and statistical correlations, but here is some evidence that at least some of the views of the Republican Party, which a lot of Republican voters hold as well, can be traced back to positions adopted by the GOP as part of the Southern Strategy to appeal to Southern whites using coded racial appeals.

«The process is largely political, with no correlation between funding and the relative status of districts as determined by certain commonly used indicators,» the report found.

Point estimates of population parameters (e.g., mean, correlation coefficient, slope) or comparative measures (e.g., mean difference, odds ratio, hazard ratio) should be accompanied by a measure of uncertainty such as a standard error or a confidence interval.

Recently various scientists, notably Harold Koenig at Duke University, have reported finding correlations between religiosity — as reflected by church attendance and other measures — and resistance to depression.

By examining the correlation between humidity and the role of tone in more than 3700 languages, scientists found that tonal languages are remarkably rare in arid regions like Central Europe, whereas languages with complex tone pitches are prevalent in relatively humid regions such as the tropics, subtropical Asia, and Central Africa.

A few epidemiological studies have even found a small correlation between SSRI use during pregnancy and ASD, but that can largely be explained by other factors, such as the severity of a mother's depression, says Lars Henning Pedersen, at Aarhus University in Denmark, who has no affiliations with any antidepressant manufacturers.

The researchers began by creating large membrane models with embedded and dyed channel proteins; they then put them on a glass surface and measured them using a single - molecule measuring method known as fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.

Next, they looked for correlations between language loss and factors such as a country's gross domestic product and levels of globalization as calculated by an internationally recognized index.

In quantum theory, interactions among particles create fascinating correlations known as entanglement that can not be explained by any means known to the classical world.

Other possible factors that might explain or influence the altruistic behavior — such as higher cognition (measured by brain size), hunting in groups, or stronger social bonds between group members — showed either much weaker correlations or no correlation at all with helping behaviors.

When the atoms were classified by this criterion and then quantified by their environments, known as coarse - graining, a clear correlation emerged between structural order and dynamics.»