Sentences with phrase «highly skewed distributions»

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

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).

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

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

The distribution of mD fame among scientists is highly skewed.

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.

The distribution of inflammatory markers was highly skewed.

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

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

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

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.

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).