Sentences with phrase «in a statistical sense»

Heat waves are far easier to attribute to a warming climate in a statistical sense.

As we have also pointed out in previous posts, we can indeed draw some important conclusions about the links between hurricane activity and global warming in a statistical sense.

The word «bias» is used in its statistical sense, that the expected result of the calculation is not the true value.

But it is not a significant deviation from the previous trend, and by significant I mean in the statistical sense.

Conceivably, therefore, a denomination or religious movement can be vital in the statistical sense of new churches built and congregations expanded, yet still be lukewarm in Cobb's sense.

The range of the measurement depth can be determined by measuring a physical quantity called the inelastic mean free path (IMFP), which defines how far an electron can travel in a material while retaining its original energy level in a statistical sense.

To appreciate the contrast in surface temperatures shown in Figure 1, the authors have quantified the spatial variability in a statistical sense.

Performance levels among the countries ranked 23rd to 31st are not significantly different from that of the U.S. in a statistical sense, yet 22 countries do significantly outperform the United States in the share of students reaching the proficiency level in math.

Our respondents are demographically similar to the U.S. population, though we note that they are not representative in the statistical sense.

«It's very hard in a statistical sense to separate for those things,» Harris said.

The first two Dungeon Siege games were dungeon crawlers, where there's a big enemy body count and loads of lovely loot to admire in a statistical sense.

First, we consider the sunspot number record in greater detail and compare in a statistical sense the sunspot observations of the period in question with those at other times.

Although average differences between depressive symptoms of children with and without chronic physical illnesses are small to very small in a statistical sense, most effect sizes are practically meaningful when using Cohen's criteria for interpreting effect sizes or the BESD.

This is not significant in the statistical sense.

GCM's are run much longer, for years on end, long enough to learn about the climate in a statistical sense (i.e. the means and variability).

If a place is ten degrees above normal at a time of one degree of global warming, it does not make sense to say that one degree is due to climate change, and nine degrees «would have happened anyway», even in a statistical sense.

The question of before melts away because the multiverse has always existed and always will, evolving but — in a statistical sense — always the same.

As a result, he says, it is easy to come up with findings that are «significant» in the statistical sense, yet not scientifically valid.

The work also explains why exoplanets appear to pile up — in a statistical sense — near their stars in orbits as short as 3 days, he says, «like a school of salmon approaching the waterfall.»

Its proficiency rate does not differ significantly (in a statistical sense) from that for all students in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand, but white students trail in reading by a significant margin all students in Shanghai, Korea, Finland, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Math scores were lower in both 4th and 8th grade than 2013, and 4th grade reading scores were not different (in a statistical sense) in 2015 than in 2013, and were lower in 8th grade reading in 2015 than in 2013.

This fallacy is the assumption that higher risk guarantees a higher reward (in a statistical sense, that is, on - average).

That is, you accept a risk only if you are likely (in a statistical sense, on - average) to receive an adequate reward.

But as matt mentions in the comments, there is no casual (in the statistical sense) relationship between self - employment and wealth.

Significantly so (in the statistical sense), even using a conservative estimate of autocorrelation.

But when the average is 600 mm + - 100 mm, 585 mm is not significantly below average (in the statistical sense).

That rise is significant, both in the statistical sense and the subjective sense.

We might say, in the statistical sense, that the chance of rolling snake eyes on a pair of dice is about 3 percent; subjective probabilities, by contrast, come into play whenever we make a personal judgment based on available evidence.

Hint for Gavin: neither are significant in the statistical sense.

Your claim about trends being different from averages — in the statistical sense being considered — is simply mistaken.

In a statistical sense the sunspot numbers recorded at the time of the proposed new cycle minimum are extremely untypical for other minima in the solar cycle record, but quite usual for the declining phase of the solar cycle.

So it seems quite clear that there is a potential connection, in a statistical sense, between human - caused global warming, declining Arctic sea ice, and the anomalous blocking pattern this winter that has added to other factors we know are tied to human - caused climate change (warmer temperatures and increased soil evaporation, and decreased winter snowpack and freshwater runoff) to produce the unprecedented drought this year in California.

They appear to behave similarly to the atmospheric measurements so they most likely are not «stationary» in the statistical sense.