Sentences with phrase «fewest number of variables»

Not exact matches

We have in recent years witnessed a number of new theoretical schemes — or attempts to revive old schemes in which collective, behavioral, observable variables predominate: ecological theories, economistic models, market metaphors, notions of moral order and moral economy, and cybernetic and behaviorist approaches, to name a few.

The results for the few food group intakes that were dichotomized before the heritability analysis, such as for infant formula milk and fruit juice, should not be overinterpreted because there are several indications that they might be an artifact: small numbers of pairs with at least one consumer for formula milk (15 %) and other beverages (13 %) made their distributions extremely positively skewed, and the reduced variation in the data due to dichotomizing these variables compromises power and accuracy of the parameters, therefore limiting interpretation.

When carrying out a scientific investigation you should reduce the number of variables to as few as possible.

A few longitudinal prospective studies provide rigorous insight but often at the expense of simplification of concepts (variables) in a limited number of countries.

This number of 48 — 72 hours is not written in stone, as there are many variables influencing the recovery time, such as training intensity, training volume, training status, just to name a few.

(2 with an input of a number, 2 with an input of a variable) A few questions for the students to try altogether before the worksheet.

I examined variables such as salary, years of teaching experience, whether teachers planned to stay in teaching for the next few years, the number of hours per week (on top of required hours) that teachers spent on activities related to their students» academic progress, and the number of hours that they spent on their students» extracurricular activities.

However, the reduction of the number of cases (to fewer than 10 per variable for the regression analysis) limits the reliability of this result.

Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of «thin - slicing» - filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.

The prime rate has been at historic lows for a number of years, but is expected to start rising soon, which means that a low variable interest rate now will very likely wind up being more expensive in a few years.

Just as in humans, the success rate depends on a number of variables - what type of cancer your pet has, how early you detect the cancer, how you treat the cancer and how strong your pet is - just to name a few.

The number of employees, equipment and seating capacity are a few variables that factor into the amount of tax due.

The relatively small number of cases means that building a search with anything more than a few of the most common variables yields few, if any, results.

Finally, secondary analyses examined whether the performance of the paraprofessionals was attributable to their completing fewer home visits and higher rate of disrupted relationships with families.26 We analyzed those dependent variables shown below in Figs 2 and 3, first in the primary models described above (but including only women in the 2 home - visited groups) and then after adding to that model covariates for number of completed home visits and whether the mother's relationship with her home visitor was continuous, including their interactions with psychological resources.

A few longitudinal prospective studies provide rigorous insight but often at the expense of simplification of concepts (variables) in a limited number of countries.