Sentences with phrase «heavily skewed»

Studies show that its benefits are heavily skewed.

The data were also tested for normality and were found to be multivariate nonnormal and heavily skewed right.

This paper hypothesises that the population of children receiving a clinical diagnosis of ADHD is aetiologically heterogeneous: that within this population, there is a group for whom the development of ADHD is largely genetically driven, and another who have a «phenocopy» of ADHD as a result of very adverse early childhood experiences, with the prevalence of this phenocopy being heavily skewed towards populations living with poverty and violence.

2017's average raised of $ 13 million and median raise amount of $ 5.0 million suggests the numbers for overall raise figures are heavily skewed by a small number of large raises, a trend that persisted throughout the year.

The ratio of humans to insects on Earth is so heavily skewed in favor of insects that there are about two billion insects per human.

Additionally, recruitment is heavily skewed towards finding the grinders, ignoring entirely the finders, binders and minders that are also so essential to a profitable practice.

«For a considerable length of time we have been banging the drum for change in the sector, pushing towards a more transparent and competitive marketplace where the risk is not so heavily skewed towards the consumer.

Unfortunately, today's investments in energy access are heavily skewed toward traditional grid extension, with billions going to large scale centralized power projects which are often heavily polluting coal plants.

When people are presented with a poll that asks if they're concerned about climate change, then the poll will be heavily skewed in that direction.

However, current investments by governments, public institutions, and multi-lateral banks involved in the United Nations Sustainable Energy for All (SEFA) are heavily skewed towards investments in large scale centralized power plants and grid extension.

After cycle 22 ended in the late 1990s, average global temperatures peaked in the late 1990s with the El Nino then, and, relative to such, have been flat to declining through now when looked at through satellite temperature data which is not heavily skewed / fudged (http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1998/plot/rss/from:1998/trend).

With their participation effectively mandated and the RTO stakeholder processes in most regions heavily skewed toward the interests of large transmission and generation asset owners, many public power utilities» only choice is to work closely with Congress and FERC to seek needed reforms.»

The literature on atmosphere / ocean interaction and the annular modes is heavily skewed towards the Northern Hemisphere: there are hundreds of studies on the impact of the NAM on the North Atlantic Ocean but still only a handful of studies on the impact of the SAM on the Southern Ocean.

The land temperatures you refer to were heavily skewed by the Antarctic, where NASA GISS has very sketchy coverage, and appears to «fill in» vast areas.

While the original Dishonored allowed you to take a nonlethal approach as well, the powers at your disposal were heavily skewed toward the murderous.

Steam sales are heavily skewed to the top, but it was always like this.

My world was the rap world,» he chuckles when I ask him why the soundtrack is so heavily skewed toward rap.

The bad games get more press than they used to and the numbers we're dealing with are heavily skewed.

The thing is, I expect a lot of these reviews and initial judgements to be heavily skewed by the mere fact that it's Bungie at the helm.

As reported in Panel A of Table 1, the average annual underperformance of − 2.2 % a year (for still - extant funds, this is through year - end 2016), 17 net of all trading costs and fees, is heavily skewed downward by the poor results of the single earnings momentum fund.

(Note that the average is heavily skewed up by the biggest companies.

If you find that it doesn't and that your portfolio too heavily skewed toward company stock, it might be time to sell some shares and reallocate.

The index is also heavily skewed to the technology sector.

«You already own a residence, so your asset mix will be heavily skewed towards real estate,» says Adrian Mastracci is a portfolio manager with KCM Wealth Management.

If I paid off my mortgage, then my assets would be heavily skewed towards r.e., which though it has served me well, is not really the basket I want all my eggs in right now.

The true geometric average of millennial net worth is actually $ 75,500 - but that number is heavily skewed by outliers like Mark Zuckerberg.

It holds 55 companies and is heavily skewed to the big banks.

Consider an aggressive investor whose portfolio is heavily skewed to stocks.

Whatever set of numbers you want to use, we all agree that ebook sales are heavily skewed depending on genre.

The majors are less likely to discount their marquee authors and I hypothesize that new traditional authors without co-marketing should have a more even distribution of sales (closer to 0); so if we see a heavily skewed distribution of new traditionally published authors, the risk increases for a greater BookBub effect in the snapshot sample.

eReader companies are coming in with their own angle and it's heavily skewed by what's best for them.

Ways one through four are heavily skewed toward nonfiction books, and not really applicable to fiction.

They also found a great fondness for series, though add the caveat that their «series data is heavily skewed by the popularity of series romance».

Our catalogue started off heavily skewed towards backlist titles, but today almost one third of our titles are new work.

When I announced the survey and asked for authors to participate, I knew the results would be heavily skewed toward SF / F writers in my network.

Canadians do have access to a fair amount of content, but Next Issue is heavily skewed towards the very mainstream.

We first heard that from General Motors, so we will call it a fact since GM's sales are heavily skewed toward trucks.

Even though this layout is heavily skewed to off - road use, driving it on paved surfaces is far better than might initially be expected.

Layout is still heavily skewed toward function, with a black plasticky interior bordering on the dull.

The MKZ is the first AWD car offered by Lincoln, which expects a 50 % take rate that will be heavily skewed toward snow - belt regions.

From a small and heavily skewed sample of schools, the authors generalise to suggest that the education of the lower quartile of secondary students would be enhanced, and educational inequality reduced if the use of mobile phones was banned in schools.

It would have been even more fun to see Chinese martial arts infused with yoga poses, or fights between Chan and yoga masters, but Tong's screenplay is too heavily skewed toward mainland Chinese tastes to explore such ideas, marking a missed opportunity for an original mashup of Bollywood and Chinese entertainment styles.

like this, and the contents of this bonus disc is heavily skewed in their favor.

With the game so heavily skewed towards Twilight Princess so far I hope they gave consideration to other titles.

And it was heavily skewed toward recent arrivals until I looked through my blog archives and remembered some old favorites.

The impeccably curated online presences of these young women — fashion blogging is heavily skewed female — seem to offer hope and a sense of control in an economy marked by persistent instability and precarious employment conditions.

The unhealthy Omega 3 to 6 ratio that is heavily skewed toward Omega 6 is very inflammatory to your body, and is thought to increase chances of heart disease and overall bodily inflammation.

That version showed the actual scale of the X axis, but again has heavily skewed axes.

The researchers confirmed that deprivation in England is heavily skewed towards urban areas, with the top five districts of deprivation in Northern England — Middlesbrough, Knowsley on Merseyside, Kingston - upon - Hull, Liverpool and Manchester.

And Chinese scientists rank behind only their U.S. counterparts on number of publications, although they are heavily skewed toward the natural sciences compared with a more even distribution by U.S. authors across disciplines.