Sentences with phrase «increasing numbers of data points»

This is because with increasing numbers of data points coincidences increase rapidly.

Adding new sites with the appropriate precautions taken with respect to their location increases the number of data points, in essence paying for the additional noise which they introduce into the trends — in the same way that increasing the number of coin tosses leads to a heads to tosses ratio closer to one half.

Not exact matches

This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six times over, to the point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia where the necessary geological data were unavailable.

While other data on Thursday showed a modest increase in new applications for jobless benefits last week, the number of Americans receiving unemployment aid fell to its lowest level since 1973, pointing to tightening labor market conditions.

Although the number of previous game matches and overall units won wanes at each data point, we do see our systems return on investment increase as we focus on higher scoring offensive teams.

It should result in horizontal and vertical grids that fluctuate in fineness in response to actual and predicted conditions — lowering the number of data points in areas where weather is fairly uniform and increasing them where conditions are changing rapidly.

Adding to this positive picture as suggested earlier, the growth in the number of data sources will increase as technology advances making the profiling of customers and competitors all the more precise to the point where predictions about future habits of such groups gain in accuracy making decision making more effective.

This corresponds with Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, which shows that average reading and math scores for top - performing students improved between 2002 and 2011 (versus almost no change between 1998 and 2002, before No Child was implemented), while the percentage of students reaching such levels increased since its passage (including a four percentage point increase in the number of students reaching such levels in reading between 2002 and 2013).

While enrollment numbers for Hispanics are increasing, enrollment numbers for other races and ethnicities has decreased over the last four years, according to data points graphed from USU's Office of Analysis, Assessment and Accreditation.

«The increasing number of flights worldwide requires that we as a global aviation community acquire, share and analyze safety data so that we have more data points to predict and mitigate risk,» said Randy Babbitt, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Another data point to watch is the increasing number of individuals who rely on mobile banking rather than traditional banking options.

And data from communities and countries that sterilize community dogs show the same results: a decline in the number of dog bites, with «officials point [ing] to a variety of factors: the obvious effect of sterilization on dog behavior, including behaviors associated with mating, reduced numbers of dogs and reduced home range of individual dogs resulting in fewer chance encounters with humans, an increased respect and thus kinder treatment towards dogs due to the positive role model of rescuers, and the impact of community education by rescuers that often accompanies these efforts.

Opening a new card also increases your total credit history (the number of data points available for creditors to gauge your credit - worthiness).

I just didn't get round to showing an example — the models take somewhat longer to fit as the number of data points increases.

As the number of data points increase so does the noise decrease.

The purpose of this was to see how 38 % is comparing to this ratio - I do suspect that when you have to determine the likelihood of a record in a large data set, one would expect to likelihood to decrease with number of data points participating in a «race» increasing.

For example, he doesn't realize that you need more than a few data points with which to establish a trend and that for noisy data the range of uncertainty associated with a trend increases the fewer the number of points one uses in order to establish that trend.

[Response: Your argument misses the point in three different and important ways, not even considering whether or not the Black Hills data have any general applicability elsewhere, which they may or may not: (1) It ignores the point made in the post about the potential effect of previous, seasonal warming on the magnitude of an extreme event in mid summer to early fall, due to things like (especially) a depletion in soil moisture and consequent accumulation of degree days, (2) it ignores that biological sensitivity is far FAR greater during the warm season than the cold season for a whole number of crucial variables ranging from respiration and photosynthesis to transpiration rates, and (3) it ignores the potential for derivative effects, particularly fire and smoke, in radically increasing the local temperature effects of the heat wave.

I made the point then (and repeat it here) that although this doesn't «disprove» global warming (the globe has warmed and during this warming we have gone from about half a million cars to almost a billion, from about 500 coal - fired power plants to about 23,000 — I'll let you tell me about the growth in the numbers of airplanes, washing machines and data centers...), it is a fairly straightforward argument against high sensitivity of the atmosphere to increasing concentrations of CO2.

With U.S. Census data pointing to increased «migration» — the number of people who moved out of state or region in 2012 increased 6 percent over 2011 — and ERA brokers citing an increased interest in self - directed relocation, ERA Real Estate partnered with HGTV to dig deeper into the American appetite for relocation.