Sentences with phrase «confidence intervals rather»

One rule is that we should examine confidence intervals rather than point estimates of teacher - specific value - added scores.

Not exact matches

I want to clarify that I'm not talking about statistical models of physical processes, but rather the statistical models upon which statistical inference (p - values, confidence intervals) is founded.

Jeff, the fundamental error of MMH is that confidence interval they worked out is not based on the standard deviation of the ensemble, but rather the standard error on the ensemble mean.

[Page 27] The idea that observational trends should be compared to the extrema of model trends, rather than to the confidence interval around the mean of model trends, is statistically and methodologically incoherent.

My preference would be to compute a confidence interval (or rather credible interval since Bayes is invoked) using the Ratio of 2 Normals distribution, as discussed in my paper on Lonnie Thompson's 2003 ice core index, rather than the traditional CCE method.

The 95 % confidence interval of the slope of your equation 10 plot is rather large, 0.69 - 1.25.

Much of the discussion has forced attorneys and other laypersons (from the perspective of the science involved) to come to terms with concepts such as recall and precision, confidence levels, confidence intervals, acceptable error rates, false positives and negatives, statistical sampling, algorithms, and other rather involved topics.