Sentences with phrase «highly skewed»

Both comorbidity counts are highly skewed, having modes of zero and a few very high scores.

Outcomes that were infrequent (and highly skewed) were analyzed by means of a generalized MMANOVA using all clients with any outcome data (n = 97), with the pretreatment values as a covariate.

As attendance distributions were highly skewed, and with the aim of reducing the impact of children with very low attendance records who were not attending school, poor attendance was treated as a binary outcome (non-Indigenous: < 80 % days attended, Indigenous: < 60 % days attended).

The car also got updates to its infotainment system, and Karma Automotive addressed its highly skewed claim about a solar roof powering the car — contrary to the common understanding that the solar roof could bring a decent amount of power to the car, it can really only «generate up to 1.5 miles of electric range per day, depending on weather conditions.»

I'd like to think that the Internet has brought better literacy to people but I'm concerned with how the balance between short topics (tweets and articles like this) and long topics (novels) is highly skewed.

As Thomas Smith observed in Web of Law, the U.S. citation network is highly skewed, with much of the legal authority concentrated in very few cases and the majority of it «dead.»

The mean is not a good central estimate for a parameter like climate sensitivity with a highly skewed distribution.

It is highly skewed.

Imposing a flat prior on an observable property, such as the climate feedback or transient climate response, is equivalent to imposing a highly skewed prior on the equilibrium climate sensitivity, and therefore results in narrower posterior likelihood ranges on the climate sensitivity that exclude very high sensitivities.

The mean is not a good central estimate for a highly skewed probability distribution, which that using data only up to 2000, in particular, is.

They show highly skewed distributions and no values below zero, presumably because the prior doesn't go below zero.

My un-expert suspicion is that the «negative externality» information we get is highly skewed as well.

To miss this step when the distribution for S * is obviously highly skewed is regretable.

I recall this MIT paper that maintaine that the probability distribution is highly skewed towards higher temperatures.

The distribution of officially recognized ethnic groups was highly skewed by region, and each district had its own characteristic cultural orientation.

In addition to the sampling issue, there's the problem inherent in using the average to describe highly skewed distributions (many cats catching few prey, while few cats catch many prey).

Among the flaws in their analysis were small, dissimilar samples of cats, and a failure to account for highly skewed data sets.

Also, this is a highly skewed distribution — there are lots of instances of low / medium density, while high densities are far less common.

Altogether 90 % of publishers sell e-books, but the census found their sales pattern was highly skewed, with nearly a quarter of publishers» e-book sales accounting for less than 3 % of total sales, while only a third believed e-books will be 50 % of their sales by 2020 — down from 48.2 % two years ago.

while ratings of men given by women is highly skewed, with 80 of men rated as below average..

The distribution of inflammatory markers was highly skewed.

The distribution of mD fame among scientists is highly skewed.

But for the articles published in any given journal, the distribution of citations is highly skewed.

Of course the response was highly skewed by the loyalty of Conservative and Labour supporters — interesting that 12 per cent of those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osborne.

Figures from WAS data for 2008 - 10 show that the distribution of household wealth is highly skewed towards the wealthiest 10 percent of households, who owned 44 percent of all household wealth in 2008 - 10, equivalent to # 4.5 trillion.

I think it is quite obvious that the bulk of the «research based» evidence toted by the anti-CIO advocates is highly skewed, and sometimes just plain inaccurate, and not even performed on humans!

It's important to note that these oddsmakers rankings only examine the odds to lead the league in passing yards, so the rankings for mobile quarterbacks are highly skewed.

In national and global social realities the distribution of information capital is highly skewed.

Even though I speak in front of thousands of people each week, I'm a highly skewed introvert and a mild agoraphobic.

One final point: Market structure is highly skewed towards long equities and short volatility.

The anonymous engineer said Musk's version of reality is highly skewed, much like Steve Job's «reality distortion field.»

Not exact matches

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

Still, the current return / risk profile features highly «unpleasant skew» - in any given week, the single most likely outcome is actually a small advance, yet the average return in the current classification is quite negative, because those small marginal gains have typically been wiped out by steep, abrupt market plunges that erase weeks or months of gains in one fell swoop (see Impermanence and Full - Cycle Thinking for a chart).

The company doesn't have to disclose average pay, which would probably be skewed higher by the smaller number of Amazon's highly paid tech workers.

The stats are currently skewing the perception of his ability slightly too highly though.

These narratives are often skewed and highly selective both with regards to a states» own historical account and more dangerously of other states» historical account.

On Sunday, a top Cuomo aide cited a Newsday report as evidence that most Long Island school districts used union - endorsed scoring to «skew» results and «ensure that their teachers are rated only «effective» and «highly effective.»»

This highly talented and committed man has a playing field so skewed against him, he might as well give up.

Hence it's highly likely that estrogen dominance will lead to the ratio between the two androgens, testosterone and DHT, becoming skewed far too much in favour of DHT.

For the continuous variable, the distribution of CRP concentrations was examined and found to be highly positively skewed; therefore, the natural log transformation of CRP was used.

It's hard to escape the conclusion that our society's inadequate diet with everything skewed to convenience with prepared, highly processed food taking the place of natural, home cooked meals is leading to a multiplicity of health problems - and now it seems they include rapidly declining fertility.

Furthermore, the standards set to evaluate these schools are skewed to rate suburban schools more highly.

I highly recommend you read through your entire manuscript because sometimes the spacing and paragraphs are skewed.

Could be true — a few highly pushed trad best - sellers could skew their avg.

We clearly need to do some refinement of the data to see whether a few categories are highly resilient (for example, single - state muni bond funds might never change their star ratings) and, thus, skewing the results.

The reason for this is that most are young start - ups or highly volatile companies, and as a result, it can skew some of the other measures that I like to screen by.

For me, I'd most highly recommend keeping your scope modest, making a schedule, and leave a lot of time for testing, polish, and new ideas that come from the testers since your perspective will begin to skew.

There is a skewed belief that everything a child does will eventually go onto a college application, which makes parents highly anxious about making that list as impressive as possible.

When a subject like this leaves the scientific, and enters the political sphere (and the highly profitable: close to $ 40 billion tax money has been spent since 1990 on global warming research), the opportunities and motives for skewing and distorting data, and selectively omitting contrary evidence, abound.

Curry provides a highly biased and skewed overview of climate sensitivity studies, which makes sense for publication in the Wall Street Journal.