Sentences with phrase «mean in the statistical sense»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But even if we accept the basic premise (and it could be meant in a purely statistical sense, although that is not usually how it is expressed), would an average anthropogenic warming by 1 °C in the relevant location mean that 1 °C is also the amount added to an extreme event?