Sentences with phrase «number of statisticians»

... Over the course of four assessment reports, a small number of statisticians have served as authors or reviewers.

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The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

With the aid of an executive assistant who's a former statistician, Smith tracks everything from the number of hours he devotes to interviews to how much one - on - one time he spends with each of his children.

To get a sense of what's happening in the bawdy houses of the nation, the OECD suggests statisticians begin with an estimate of the total number of prostitutes.

Fresh Expressions of Church and large numbers of immigrant Christians have helped to slow the decline in British churchgoing, according to figures from statistician Dr Peter Brierley.

As a statistician I think the accuracy of number of bets does not make any sense in sports betting.

Practices were «randomized by the trial statistician with stratification by midwifery team and numbers of deliveries per clinic».

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning the number of new additional jobs created since 1997 in the (a) public sector and (b) private sector.

Gary King *, Statistician 19,400 followers @kinggary Citations: 36,311 K - index: 16 Total number of tweets: 3,080 Harvard University, United States

In recent years, he and Stanford statistician Robert Tibshirani have conducted a number of studies on the statistical factors that contribute to this epidemic.

The least one ought to be able to expect in a book by a statistician is (a) clear specification of what is being depicted by the numbers that are presented and (b) appropriate indication of the magnitudes of uncertainties (as reflected, for example, in the range of respectable estimates of a quantity of interest).

Perhaps the most unexpected and inexplicable defect of all in a book by a statistician is The Skeptical Environmentalists almost pervasive inattention to the ranges of estimates that exist for quantities of interest even inattention to the standard scientific practice of expressing quantities to a number of significant digits roughly commensurate with the precision to which the quantities are known.

Nassim Taleb, Statistician 79,100 followers @nntaleb Citations: 6,523 K - index: 110 Total number of tweets: 427 New York University, United States

«Since the difference in the number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer is related to how many men undergo PSA testing, we think our data shows that PSA testing and early treatment is related to a modest decrease in risk of prostate cancer death,» says Håkan Jonsson statistician and senior author of the study.

This shift is observable in almost every advanced industrial country; ageing populations, coupled with higher life expectancies, have lead statisticians to forecast that over the next 15 years there will be a 56 percent increase in the number of people aged over 602.

Education statistician John Howson criticised the pilot for limiting funding to EBacc subjects, claiming this will not address a number of other subjects also suffering from teacher shortages.

The number (which is pretty abstract to all but the statisticians, as Progress 8 scores generally fall somewhere between -1 and 1) is then placed into one of five bands:

However, the statisticians were rightfully concerned that this simplistic approach might have simply captured the fact that poorer students tend to be at schools with larger numbers of black students.

It is based on «research» only if one defines research as a far - removed action involving far - removed statisticians crunching numbers as part of a monetary contract.

«The Chief Statistician has concluded that we are unable to publish the «Local Authority Budgeted Expenditure on Schools 2011 - 12: Wales and England Comparison» bulletin this year due to the current changing education policy landscape in England and the large numbers of schools moving to academy status in - year and therefore out of local government control,» the spokesperson added.

These cases have tested a chief selling point (pardon [or underscore] the business reference) of VAMs: that they will effectuate, for example, teacher termination with greater ease because nobody besides the advanced statisticians and econometricians can argue with their numbers derived.

Statisticians said the drop could in part be due to a fall in the number of private school English GCSE entries.

This native adaptability is in itself a type of «infrastructural» advantage, an infrastructure of culture that will serve us well as long as we refuse to panic in the face of statisticians and pundits wielding yesterday's numbers and telling us we're washed up if we remain ourselves.

After completing a master's degree in biostatistics, and working as a statistician, Jennifer realized she was hiding behind numbers and formulas instead of creating something wholly new.

In the 1880s, Mr. Dow (a reporter) recognized the need for a single number to report the day's activity of the fledgling stock market, so he teamed up with Mr. Jones (a statistician) and calculated the first index.

# 57, RE small numbers, I'm no climate scientist, but I do know statisticians have methods, such as Chi - square and log - linear analysis (based on odds ratios), that are quite successful on data sets with small numbers of observations.

One student in the class last Tues commented that collaboration between statisticians and climate researchers would be a good thing, I said yes and then a number of voices chimed in and said «but not that group of statisticians».

According to the Swedish statistician Hans Rosling2 we may have reached Peak Child — the number of people aged less than 15 may well never again be larger than it is today.

I work as a statistician at a research hospital and get a good number of publications (usually 3rd to 9th authorship).

A report in Nature from a number of public health statisticians has got a handle on how the fight is progressing.

DeSmog notes that Climate Hustle shares a number of experts with a video by the Cornwall Alliance titled «Where the Grass is Greener» including statistician William Briggs, Tom Harris, Australian «sceptic» Bob Carter, Lord Christopher Monckton and blogger Anthony Watts.

I'm sure there are a few more folks that are «professional statisticians»; I know a number of the scientists have degrees in mathematics, but aren't professional statisticians.

Because of all the media attention that Webster et al. (2005) received, during the press embargo period, journalists sent the Hoyos et al. paper out for review to apparently quite a large number of climate researchers, mathematicians, and statisticians, a number of whom were quoted in media articles or who emailed us personally with questions.