The data come from peer - reviewed studies using quasi-experimental research designs, as well as multi-institution and statewide regression
correlation studies from a dozen states.
Correlations studies from the past are being proven wrong.
Not exact matches
A 2014
study from Pennebaker and his team found a
correlation between filler words and conscientiousness, in the way the words can be seen as social and personality markers.
A
study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that
from 1997 — 2012, the
correlation between real US interest rates and the gold price was -0.82.
Google & Bing have confirmed that both Twitter and Facebook influence SEO and a recent case
study from SEOMoz highlights the potential of twitter to affect rank (although in my opinion it's near impossible to provide an exact
correlation between each).
The extensive
study, «Cross-National
Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies,» published in the Journal of Religion and Society examines statistics
from eighteen of the most developed democratic nations.
It is possible that the drug is harmful to developing babies, but it's also possible that women who are on antidepressant medications are more severely depressed
from the start and there is a biological or behavioral factor in these moms that accounts for the
correlation found in the
study.
Studies on the effects of divorce are plagued by spurious
correlations, incalculable variables, and the near - impossibility of separating cause
from effect.
Data gathered
from studies show that while there is a clear link between IQ and academic success, the
correlation between high achievement and the character traits of conscientiousness and self - discipline is even more pronounced.
A Scottish
study conducted by researchers
from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and published in the November 2002 «BMJ» found a
correlation between SIDS death and sleeping on previously used mattresses, especially those that came
from someone else's home.
In contrast to the findings of previous research (Foster et al., 1997), the data
from this
study do not show a
correlation to socio - economic status: respondents seemed equally likely to initiate breastfeeding irrespective of their social class.
Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others
from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a
correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1
study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.
Consistent with this is a later European
study of data
from 21 nations in which «no significant
correlations [of gun ownership levels] with total suicide or homicide rates were found.»
«Our
study revealed an unexplained
correlation between the happiness today of some nations and the observed happiness of Americans whose ancestors came
from these nations,» says Professor Oswald.
And across all scales,
from very small controlled
studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the
correlation is not entirely clear.
And we have done many validation
studies where we compared our diet assessments to biochemical measures, say of, tansfat in the fat tissue of a person or the level of beta - carotene in the blood, and we found pretty good
correlations — not perfect but they are pretty good — and that means that we are able to pick up meaningful differences in people, among people that we can tell someone who is eating a large amount of transfat
from a person eating low amount of transfat.
Using 5,012 patients, they calculated their own PWV measurements and compared them with the tonometry measurements
from the
study, finding an 85 percent
correlation between the two.
Comparative anatomy and human evolution experts
from the University's School of Medicine have been
studying the
correlation between meat consumption and obesity rates in 170 countries.
Neuroscientists
studying mammals
from voles to hyenas are discovering key
correlations between brain chemicals and social strategies.
«We've believed
from studies here at Earth that there should be a good
correlation between these kilometric radio emissions
from the auroras and the auroras themselves,» Kurth says.
Institutional diversity:
Studying case data
from the 1990s to the present, the researchers found a
correlation between jury racial composition and different legal outcomes.
From the total
study sample, 104 participated in a two - year longitudinal
study that found a
correlation between OSA severity and a decrease in CSF A?
A
study based on blood samples
from more than 55,000 Danes conducted by the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital shows a direct
correlation between smoking and mortality.
To resolve this, the researchers conducted so - called meta - analyses:
From relevant databases of scientific publications, they identified 59
studies that tackled the
correlation between social media use and academic performance.
They compared gene expression
from tumors of 740 patients (combined
from two
studies) to overall patient survival to arrive at these
correlations.
Postdoc Janne Thirstrup
from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, has
studied the genetic
correlations between behaviour and other financially important traits in mink.
Most
studies in humans have shown a clear
correlation between higher socioeconomic status and lower risk of death or illness
from stress - related diseases such as heart attacks and diabetes.
A new
study conducted in collaboration with Facebook using anonymised data
from the social networking site shows a
correlation between people's social and financial status, and the levels of internationalism in their friendship networks — with those
from higher social classes around the world having fewer friends outside of their own country.
Physicians have recommended vitamin D supplements to their patients for a decade, with good reason: dozens of
studies have shown a
correlation between high intake of vitamin D — far higher than most people would get in a typical diet and
from exposure to the sun — and lower rates of chronic diseases, such as cancer and type 1 diabetes.
Any of these stories are plausible, Wrangham says, but it's notoriously hard to distinguish selective pressures
from beneficial physiological changes in
correlation studies like this one.
«When we compared the gene signature activity of glioblastoma cells
from around 60 patients we found that a large number of patients could be divided into subgroups that showed a
correlation between gene activity, tumor cell characteristics and cell of origin similar to the one we had seen in the mouse
study.
The researchers in this
study,
from the University of Manchester and the University of Hull, used a virtual human heart - torso and a 64 - lead electrocardiogram (ECG) vest to
study the
correlation between the origin of the storm waves and the features of the ECG signals.
The revolution in neuroscience is often characterized as a revolution in new imaging technology.A long overdue reassessment of neuroimaging machines — in particular the functional magnetic resonance imager — has underlined that what you see is not always what you get.A
study published this year in Perspectives on Psychological Science noted that many papers in social neuroscience, the field that examines the neurobiology of social behavior, suffered
from faulty analyses that produced «voodoo
correlations» in their data.
The results so far show only a
correlation between fires and water cycle indicators, but the data gathered
from the
study is allowing scientists to improve climate models to be able to establish a more direct relationship between biomass burning and its impacts on drought.
Future
studies will explore different feedstocks, particularly those
from biorefineries, and
correlations among processing conditions, material structure and performance.
While the materials
from the CFI subjects are extremely valuable and our results are statistically significant, greater numbers of subjects must be analyzed to determine whether the
correlations we detected continue to hold up when more patients are
studied, and whether such
correlations exist within people carrying other haplogroups.
Of the 22 patients whose tumors successfully grafted, six died before data
from the mice were available, but in 13 of the remaining 16 cases, there was a positive
correlation between mouse and human results.2 In a second
study, performed in collaboration with Manuel Hidalgo of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center, the team found that 6 of 13 patients with advanced solid tumors who were treated based on results
from personalized PDX mice had partial tumor remissions, even in cases where genetic sequencing of the tumor showed no actionable mutations.3
The notion that CD4 + T cells might be the pivotal mediators of corneal graft rejection arose
from studies demonstrating the close
correlation between delayed - type hypersensitivity (DTH), a classical CD4 + T cell - mediated immune process, and corneal graft rejection in rodents (10, 11).
Another interesting finding
from this
study was the
correlation between twin pregnancies, cesarean delivery, gestational hypertension and a PPCM diagnosis.
The sleep paralysis and OBE
correlation was later corroborated by the Out - of - Body Experience and Arousal
study published in Neurology by Kevin Nelson and his colleagues
from the University of Kentucky in 2007.
Colonization of germ - free transgenic mice with genotyped Helicobacter pylori strains
from a case - control
study of gastric cancer reveals a
correlation between host responses and HsdS components of type I restriction - modification systems.
Longitudinal mixed models were also used to estimate the effect of vaccine dose on mean log - transformed antibody levels over time, using a spatial exponential covariance structure to model the
correlation between measurements
from the same individual while taking into account the number of
study days between measurements.
Systems - biology
studies have mapped out aging - related genetic networks, but these top - down approaches are complicated by the difficulty of distinguishing
correlations from causality.
Also using our Contiuum nanosecond optical parametric oscillator OPO system, the Perkin Elmer Lambda 900 UV / VIS / NIR and Princeton Instruments photon counting ICCD spectroscopic camera, we are
studying the
correlations in the chemical and physical origins of diamond luminescence with lots of samples
from the national mineral collection at the Smithsonian.
The absence of
correlation between serological responses and active infection was apparent
from this
study, which utilized five diagnostic antigens.
A recent
study, led by SciLifeLab researchers at Uppsala University, shows a
correlation between a loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells and both a shorter life span and higher mortality
from cancer in other organs.
In a
study published in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, investigators at the University of Dundee led by Michael Ferguson performed a protein
correlation profiling approach using mass spectrometry to identify protein complexes
from T. brucei.
Her prior
studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Science highlighted the
correlation between elevated mutation and neoantigen burden and clinical benefit
from checkpoint blockade therapies.
Another
study has examined whether or not the
correlation coefficient between each voxel pair significantly differs
from zero [11].
The 180 - formula was reverse - engineered
from decades of clinical
study and observations, and has a very high
correlation with the onset of lactate production in basically everyone that was
studied.