Sentences with phrase «group of statisticians»

A group of statisticians from the Insurance Research Council recently studied New Mexico drivers.

Recently, a group of statisticians calculated that the statewide average annual premium rate for a car insurance policy purchased in Nebraska was about $ 1,113, quite a ways under the national average car insurance rate, which was around $ 1,355 at the time.

One student in the class last Tues commented that collaboration between statisticians and climate researchers would be a good thing, I said yes and then a number of voices chimed in and said «but not that group of statisticians».

A group of statisticians, mathematicians and biologists have formed a Working Group at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis to address the questions arising from the problem of analyzing complex evolutionary traits.

The ASA participants consisted of a diverse group of statisticians from academia, government, and private industry.

«We had a whole group of statisticians reanalyze the data because we didn't believe it,» she says.

«This likely is the first time a group of statisticians have had really close examination of sea level data,» said Parnell.

He traveled to Haiti with a group of statisticians to survey residents so that aid organizations could better meet their needs.

Not exact matches

The size of a religious group deserves the attention not only of the statistician, but also of all those who believe that a very different psychology typifies the masses on the one hand and intimate circles on the other.

Group designation was given from a randomisation list, generated using a permuted randomized block design, with permutation block sizes of 3, 6, and 9 units, prior to study initiation by an external statistician.

As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more and more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and statisticians.

In light of these issues, the association convened a group of experts to formulate a document listing six «principles» regarding P values for the guidance of «researchers, practitioners and science writers who are not primarily statisticians.»

The team of nutritionists, statisticians, and public - health experts started by studying models generated by food companies, but most were «haphazard» and «nontransparent,» according to Peter Scarborough, a mathematician in the group.

The pioneering work on «robust statistics,» or statistical methods that can tolerate corrupted data, was done by statisticians, but both new papers come from groups of computer scientists.

As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and statisticians.

In doing so, he avoided scrutinizing the borrower as an individual and instead lumped him in a group of people — what statisticians today call a bucket.

Ngai's group teamed up with UC Berkeley statisticians and computer scientists — led by Sandrine Dudoit, a professor of biotstatistics and statistics, Elizabeth Purdom, a professor of statistics, and Nir Yosef, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences — to develop a way to analyze the experimental data and identify cells with similar RNA profiles, indicative of specific cell types and developmental states.

Rice statistician Marina Vannucci and lead author Sharon Chiang, an M.D. / Ph.D. student at Rice and Baylor College of Medicine, and their co-authors detailed their technique to analyze brain activity data from patients with epilepsy and control groups to see how distinct structures in the brain spontaneously interact.

Lead author Melissa Danielson, MSPH, a statistician with the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, said findings that children in foster care experience high rates of ADHD along with other, simultaneous behavioral disorders as compared to their peers in Medicaid shows a substantial need for medical and behavioral services within this group.

In another major role, University of Chicago statistician James Dignam, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics, has been named as a principal investigator for the Statistics and Data Management Center of one of the new NCTN groups.

The statisticians also discussed cost - effective experiments, strategies when a control group is not feasible, the integrated use of administrative data and surveys, and avoiding and reducing survey errors and biases.

Members of the focus group discussed many aspects of the role of statistics in human rights problems, as well as rights of statisticians as a community and as individual scientists.

As a citizen of the United States and a taxpayer, and as a practicing biomedical applied statistician, I am especially concerned about the possibility that the funding garnered for such potentially flawed studies is detracting from other groups» ability to obtain funding to perform valid research in the valuable arena of personalized medicine.

We welcome applications from potential graduate students and postdocs with strong computational skills who want to join our group's eclectic mix of statisticians, geophysicists, climate modelers, and policy scholars.

We then wanted to find the cleanest possible way to analyze the data, so we worked with a couple of statisticians to explore different analyses that might be appropriate and powerful enough to detect group differences and, in future, maybe even drug effects.

One study, conducted by a group of distinguished statisticians, John Barnard, Constantine Frangakis, Jennifer Hill, and Donald Rubin (hereinafter referred to as Barnard), has confirmed our first - year results but has been virtually ignored in the public media.

DfE statisticians warned they were only a tiny group of all maintained schools: 123 primary free schools which took the tests against 12,431 local authority primary schools.

Shannon Mlodzinski, the statistician of the group, announced the results of the most recent assessment on improper fractions, distributing a list of students and scores.

A recent analysis of shelter data by an independent group of citizens, with the help of UCLA statisticians, has shown that dramatic drops in intake have been conclusively shown to be driving parallel drops in euthanasia.

The report for Barton was prepared by three statisticians, Edward Wegman, David Scott and Yasmin Said, and its only novel contribution is a social network analysis, which is meant to show that the various independent studies aren't really independent and that peer review has broken down, since the same group of interlinked academics is reviewing each others» papers.

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.

Recently, a US Congressional Committee asked a group of independent statisticians led by Dr. Edward Wegman, Chair of the National Science Foundation's Statistical Sciences Committee, to evaluate the Mann methodology.

I am proud of my colleagues and the talent that we have within that group — from the software developers to the statisticians, it is a really unique group that has built up years of expertise.

Assessors of primary outcomes and the statistician will be blind to group allocation.