Sentences with phrase «in the statistical sense of»

We argued that the seemingly high RE statistic in MBH98 was «spurious» — using the term «spurious» in the statistical sense of Granger and Newbold [1974] and Phillips [1986], not in an argumentative sense and showed that the biased PC1s could be used to create «reconstructions» which had high RE and low R2 statistics.

pete, if it's not the same model it's, by definition, not an «ensemble» in the statistical sense of the word.

Not exact matches

And even for me as an individual, is it not important to note that this is by no means the first time I've been a church - goer, that I had been recently finding a kind of joy (one might call it an experience of the sacred) reading T. S. Eliot, that my commitment to the new church is by no means total (in the sense of excluding work or family or friends), and that if statistical predictions work in my case I will probably have moved on to some other kind of commitment in five or ten years.

Updated local authority figures on the statements of SEN that were finalised within 26 weeks for the year 2011 to 2012 will be added on this date, replacing the separate statistical release that contained this information in previous years.

«If we survey a large number of planets with less detailed measurements, we can still get a statistical sense for how prevalent habitable environments are in our galaxy.

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.

Statistical mechanics: James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, J. Willard Gibbs, late 19th century By explaining heat in terms of the statistical behavior of atoms and molecules, statistical mechanics made sense of thermodynamics and also provided strong evidence for the realitStatistical mechanics: James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, J. Willard Gibbs, late 19th century By explaining heat in terms of the statistical behavior of atoms and molecules, statistical mechanics made sense of thermodynamics and also provided strong evidence for the realitstatistical behavior of atoms and molecules, statistical mechanics made sense of thermodynamics and also provided strong evidence for the realitstatistical mechanics made sense of thermodynamics and also provided strong evidence for the reality of atoms.

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.»

Presumptive causality strains the statistical sense of sexy «polygenic scoring» methods, whose fans hope «predictions can operate in complete ignorance of the

Applying sound business analysis to your thought process — in combination with statistical principles — can help you make sense of the data and tease out which approach maximizes your efforts.

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.

Sampling error is not really «error» in the common sense of the word, but statistical noise introduced by inferring national scores from a random sample of test takers.

The researchers at IEA provide that statistical information in their report to help the Secretary and others who might not be familiar with statistical techniques to make better sense of the results.

One issue is that we are less sure, in a statistical sense, about the impacts of graduates from smaller programs than we are from graduates of larger ones.

Of the three PTP metrics, APTP is the one that has the best argument for statistical validity, because it makes intuitive sense that the number of adoptions will depend on the number of people in the communitOf the three PTP metrics, APTP is the one that has the best argument for statistical validity, because it makes intuitive sense that the number of adoptions will depend on the number of people in the communitof adoptions will depend on the number of people in the communitof people in the community.

However, despite there being no online leaderboards; there is a statistical analysis of the decisions that you have made during each episode in comparison to the decisions that everyone else who has played The Wolf Among Us has made, which is a positive design choice in the sense that it provides you with an in depth look at if you have made the correct decision or if you were incorrect in the eyes of a certain percentage of people who have played the game.

However, despite there being no online leaderboards; there is a statistical analysis of the decisions that you have made during each episode in comparison to the decisions that everyone else who has played The Walking Dead: Michonne has made which is a positive design choice in the sense that it provides you with an in depth look at if you have made the correct decision or if you were incorrect in the eyes of a certain percentage of people who have played the game.

However, despite there being no online leaderboards; there is a statistical analysis of the decisions that you have made during each episode in comparison to the decisions that everyone else who has played The Walking Dead has made, which is a positive design choice in the sense that it provides you with an in depth look at if you have made the correct decision or if you were incorrect in the eyes of a certain percentage of people who have played the game.

Basic idea: if GW has doubled the chance of such a heatwave, you could attribute half the casualties to GW in a statistical sense.

What we do know, however, is that both anthropogenic climate change and El Nino favor, in a statistical sense, warmer winters over large parts of the U.S..

Your comments really should apply to the result of MBH98 — the findings of MM2005 in GRL show that what you describe is essentially what the MBH98 algorithm did with the data — find things that are not there (or, more properly I should say, not significant in a statistical sense).

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

In the TAR (Mitchell et al., 2001), detection of climate change is the process of demonstrating that an observed change is significantly different (in a statistical sense) from what can be explained by natural variabilitIn the TAR (Mitchell et al., 2001), detection of climate change is the process of demonstrating that an observed change is significantly different (in a statistical sense) from what can be explained by natural variabilitin a statistical sense) from what can be explained by natural variability.

In this sense, the hockey - sticky exploit, based on a few bristlecone pines and a flawed statistical method, is a prime example of scientific abuse.

Thus tolerance for Risk is meaningless in such questions; Uncertainty removes all sense of Risk entirely, no cost / benefit formulation, no statistical distribution containing a mean, no Risk preference can be expressed.

This is extremely relevent to prediction of sudden cardiac death (my field) where many things are significantly associated with SCD in the statistical sense, but have practically no predictive capacity.

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.

The review of my one publication in Remote Sensing last year was done quite professionally and it was clear to me and my co-authors that the referees chosen to review the paper were specifically knowledgeable of the various satellite, radiosonde and statistical issues, leading to some substantial and useful revisions.

So the ultimate way of judging the validity of statistical methods is to apply them in relatively simple contexts (such as this) and check whether the results stand up to well - considered common sense scrutiny.

His decision might be justifiable in the field of statistical analysis, but it sure doesn't sound to be so in the field of common sense.

Furthermore, as shown in Table 1 of Koutsoyiannis and Montanari (2007), 150 years of climatic data (the CRU time series) are equivalent to about 2 data points in the classical statistical sense, if the LTP hypothesis is true.

Although maximum likelihood (restricted or otherwise) depends completely on the specification of some particular underlying distribution and that there may be nonlinearity in the process, it makes no statistical or practical sense to get results that look like that.

Which, in its turn means that the important caveats going to uncertainty, the incompleteness of the data, the unverified nature of some of the statistical methods and the tentative nature of the models has tended to be suppressed, either directly or by way of a sense of professional prior restraint.

For instance in the SSS sense, the longest sample size [n = 1979], is equivalent to a classical statistical sample size of about 3.

Climate - Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the average weather, or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years.

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.

I had totally forgotten about superquant David Leinweber's subsequent — and totally brilliant — discovery: that butter production in Bangladesh, U.S. cheese production, and sheep population in Bangladesh and the U.S. together «explained» (in a statistical sense) 99 % of the annual movements of the S&P 500 between 1983 and 1993.

In other words, solar activity «explains,» in the statistical sense, 50 to 80 % of past temperature change.&raquIn other words, solar activity «explains,» in the statistical sense, 50 to 80 % of past temperature change.&raquin the statistical sense, 50 to 80 % of past temperature change.»

> [W] e have adopted the more neutral term «degree of confirmation» instead of «probability» because the latter is used in science in a definite technical sense involving reference to the relative frequency of the occurence of a given event in a sequence, and it is at least an open question whether the degree of confirmation of a hypothesis can generally be defined as a probability in this statistical sense.

Detection and attribution - Detection of change in a system (natural or human) is the process of demonstrating that the system has changed in some defined statistical sense, without providing a reason for that change.

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

This baffling story is yet another example of how a suffocating helicopter - style of parenting is becoming the norm in Canada (and the U.S.), despite evidence that it makes no statistical sense, nor is it particularly beneficial for child development.

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.

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 cyclIn 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 cyclin the solar cycle record, but quite usual for the declining phase of the solar cycle.

Flat out refutation is more accurate — if not in the pure statistical sense (though certainly much there as well), then at least in terms of what Steig claimed his paper showed, what the Team thought it proved, and what the media happily lapped up as true.

or use the pure statistical approach (confirmed by Tamino and Breusch) and speak of a trend in the sense that VS uses the term.

A7: We are collaborating closely with Bob Morse (U.S. News» director of data research) in order to ensure the statistical validity of our data and assign weights that make sense based on continuing discussions with large numbers of general counsel, lawyers, and law firm representatives.

«Using our proprietary technology, the forms and clauses are assembled from the automated analysis of thousands of successfully negotiated agreements, which importantly provides an objective, statistical standard that provides lawyers with an immediate sense of which clauses tend to be highly negotiated and which are not, providing important context that aids them in drafting,» he concluded.

This makes far more sense than the term reactive attachment disorder (RAD), which is in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition: DSM - 5.

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.