Sentences with phrase «less precise data»

Not exact matches

Those studies, which used less precise genetic tests, showed differences between females at beaches thousands of miles apart but provided no data on males.

Because this metric is less precise than the Student Progress Rating, which uses growth data provided by the state Departments of Education, we have given it a lesser weighting in the Summary Rating.

Both these datasets which in spite of being far more precise than the surfaced based data (because the physical biases of sampling are not present to the same extent in the satellite data), the HadCRUT3 dataset, the NCDC dataset and even the GISS dataset all are more or less consistent with the two satellite based datasets.

The bureau states it is important to note that minimum temperature data to the nearest degree was not wrong, but simply less precise than the raw data.

After all, the early (pre-instrumental) data are much less > reliable as indicators of global temperature than is apparent in modern > calibrations that include them and when we don't know the precise role of > particular proxies in the earlier portions of reconstruction it remains > problematic to assign genuine confidence limits at multidecadal and longer > timescales.

This makes estimates of trend rates from linear regression (or any other method, for that matter) less precise; the probable error from such an analysis is larger than it would be if the random parts of the data were uncorrelated.

To put it shortly, the expert presenting this evidence did it badly, and the data he used to form his estimate of probability were less than precise.

Insurers have mountains of data, and they know in precise detail what types of cars, makes and models are more — or less — likely to incur claims.