Sentences with phrase «meaningful correlation in»

The real problem is not whether NASA (the people who want to colonize Mars) falsified the data, but the lack of meaningful correlation in the data as it stands.

Not exact matches

I recognize that the Fund may have little or no correlation to the MSCI EAFE Index for meaningful periods of time in some of these cases the Index will be advancing.

When market conditions are unfavorable in the view of the investment manager, the Fund may experience limited, zero, or possibly negative correlation with general market fluctuations for meaningful periods of time, and the Fund may experience a net loss of time - value on purchased options.

And we have done many validation studies where we compared our diet assessments to biochemical measures, say of, tansfat in the fat tissue of a person or the level of beta - carotene in the blood, and we found pretty good correlations — not perfect but they are pretty good — and that means that we are able to pick up meaningful differences in people, among people that we can tell someone who is eating a large amount of transfat from a person eating low amount of transfat.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

The relationship is not as strong as the simple correlation between growth mindset and achievement levels, but it is meaningful in size.

Even if a correlation is «statistically significant,» it is possible that the correlation is the result of bias, and that the relationship is so weak that it is not meaningful in practice, especially when the goal is to make high - stakes decisions about individual teachers.

These long - term correlation trends will need to reverse if investors expect international developed markets to hold up in the face of meaningful declines in the U.S. stock market.

I recognize that the Fund may have little, no, or negative correlation to the general market for meaningful periods of time, and in some of these cases the general market will be advancing.

When market conditions are unfavorable in the view of the investment manager, the Fund may experience limited, zero, or possibly negative correlation with general market fluctuations for meaningful periods of time, and the Fund may experience a net loss of time - value on purchased options.

As should be clear from his presentation, he takes the issue of long term correlation very seriously and attempts to deal with it in a meaningful scientific manner, not by producing statistical artefacts.

This is where scientific judgment comes in — some people are better at pattern recognition and meaningful correlation than others.

60 years is very close to 3X the Saturn Jupiter lap beat of 19.859 = 59.577 Tallblokes 974 periodicity is in the ball park with 3X the USJ lap beat at 317.74 = 953.22 Chuck in a bit for other planetary influences and various lags between these drivers and earth's climate and these correlations seem likely to be meaningful.

i.e. the spread of model their model outcomes is too narrow and doesn't encompass the real world range -RCB-, This is where scientific judgment comes in — some people are better at pattern recognition and meaningful correlation than others.

In 2005, «US paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson told a congressional committee... that there was no meaningful correlation between carbon dioxide levels and Earth's temperature during this geologic time frame.

There really has been an increase in OK quakes and the state agencies charged with investigating same have found no meaningful correlation with drilling / fracing / disposal wells.

For example, what if it turns out that there is no statistically meaningful correlation between the average number of lawyers in a law department per office location and total legal spending?

Check out Eric Mosca's article on the power of recognizing correlations within your data, «Looking Beyond Numbers: Finding Meaningful Relationships Between Data Sources,» featured in Legaltech News today.

Because the NRF made several changes in the methodology it used to calculate figures this year, comparisons with last year's figures would not provide meaningful correlations, it said.