Sentences with phrase «of statisticians of»

The county - level data was acquired from the U.S. Census, the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and consisted of three sets of factors.

Richard John Neuhaus notes that the decennial study of church membership conducted by the Glenmary Research Center and sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has confirmed the phenomenon highlighted in Dean Kelley's 1972 Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (While We're At It, January).

According to data provided to me by Rich Houseal of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Massachusetts is the most Catholic state in the nation.

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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.

A famous example of this comes from statistician Abraham Wald, who in World War II recommended putting extra armor on planes in locations where surviving crafts returning from battle had no bullet holes.

Sometime in the years before 1913, Hoffman, the in — house statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America, began noticing something odd.

According to statisticians at George Washington University, regulation reached its highest level ever in 2016, topping out at nearly 100,000 total pages of Federal rules and regulations.

He traveled to Haiti with a group of statisticians to survey residents so that aid organizations could better meet their needs.

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.

While the «data scientist» title is somewhat all - encompassing now, Gnau expects that it will that three specialty fields will emerge soon: technologists, who write the algorithms and code to transverse the large amounts of data; statisticians and quantification experts; and artist - explorers, creative people who can navigate content and find something others don't see.

To capture its contribution to our economy, statisticians might consult the quantities of crystal meth seized by police and multiply it by an estimate of how much that represents of the total trade.

W. Edwards Deming, trained as a mathematician and statistician, went to Japan at the behest of the U.S. State Department to help Japan in the preparation of the 1951 Japanese Census.

Another study, co-authored in 2014 by Michael Wolfson, Canada's former chief statistician, found that the wealthiest Canadians disproportionately take advantage of the preferential small business tax rate.

In the meantime the position of PBO can now be added to the growing list of «hard to fill» government positions, just behind Chief Statistician.

The upshot is that developers use one set of statistics and logic to calculate their «total returns» on their properties, but support a different logic for use by government statisticians and Congressional authors of the nation's tax laws, whose support from the FIRE sector depends largely on their not understanding its essential dynamics.

Almost 70 % of its workforce consists of statisticians, while 11 % are IT specialists.

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

An Analysis of the Economic Circumstances of Canadian Seniors, authored by statistician Richard Shillington of Tristat Resources and released by the Broadbent Institute, also shows the Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) guarantee levels are falling behind and trends in income sources for seniors suggest that high poverty rates among seniors will further increase.

In fact, women have made progress in some STEM fields — in 1987 only 23 % of mathematicians, statisticians, and actuaries were women; by 2015 this share increased to 67 %.

OTTAWA — The country's former chief statistician is casting doubt on the Liberal government's promised commitments to Statistics Canada based on its handling of an issue that forced his sudden departure last week.

However, statisticians report that only about two - thirds of businesses with employees continue after 2 years.

The same freedom that empowers a statistician to pick a true signal out of the noise also enables a dishonest scientist to manufacture nearly any result he or she wishes.

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

The hockey - stick curve caught the attention of two Canadians, Steve McIntyre, a mining consultant, and an academic statistician, Ross McKitrick.

«In «The New Criminology», Max D. Schlapp and Edward E. Smith say that two generations of statisticians found that the ratio of convicts without religious training is about 1/10 of 1 %.

It is this homeless Christ who represents 8,990 cultural contexts in the world today (I use the figures of statistician David B. Barrett).

Practically, psychologists, statisticians, and the rest of the research teams must be involved in these research designs, but the hidden goals and preconceptions of both clergymen and psychologically trained professionals must be articulated before the designs are firmed up.

The size of a religious group deserves the attention not only of the statistician, but also of all those who believe that a very different psychology typifies the masses on the one hand and intimate circles on the other.

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.

I will also be receiving some help from time to time on the Rankings from some of your statisticians..

Kentucky's players may not watch much tape, but SI undertook the project of charting all 815 minutes and 1,299 possessions from their first 20 games using the Defensive Scoresheet method from statistician Dean Oliver's 2003 book, Basketball on Paper — which assigns credit or blame (either full or fractional) for forced misses, points yielded, turnovers created, fouls and rebounds — in order to create individual defensive ratings.

Well - briefed pieces appeared in both the Independent and the Daily Mail, though the interesting nuggets about Rodgers feeling isolated and bypassed by those he was working with are rather lost behind the blasts of the trumpets against the monstrous regiment of statisticians.

Jinx Statisticians and fatalists know that everybody has to lose some time — but why does it happen so often for a team the week after it's touted on the cover of SI?

After statisticians at the University of Connecticut and MIT concluded that analysis of the betting and players» records indicated games at Milford had been fixed, Snyder asked the commission to hold a full hearing to investigate the Saturday Corporation.

Nate Silver, the most trusted prognosticator and statistician in the country, gave Clinton a 71.8 % chance of winning.

He's so prominent that after the first period of a game earlier this season, Detroit's statisticians credited him with playing 20:08.

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

Credit for this goes to Cal - Hi Sports, which tracked it down from the reporting statisticians of both schools.

For example, a statistician will tell you there's a one - third chance of X (or a 95 % chance of Y) occurring in a given year.

Various scoring and passing feats are challenged but this season another aspect of Barcelona has caught the attention of statisticians; their misly defence.

Ahead of the official renaming ceremony of the Kenny Dalglish Stand at Anfield, club statistician Ged Rea casts a numerical look back over the Scot's Liverpool love affair...

Club historian Rick Glanvill and club statistician Paul Dutton complete their review of the season with the in - depth statistics and more...

To find out what milestone the LFC No. 20 could reach, plus more need - to - know pre-match facts and figures, courtesy of club statistician Ged Rea, read on...

According to football statisticians Opta on Thursday: «Patrice Evra is the first player to be sent off before the start of a match in the history of the Europa League».

(These assists are judged not for the last touch but by the subjective view of the club statistician for a crucial part played in the goal).

For almost 10 years, as a statistician in the Division of Vital Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), she designed, analyzed, wrote text, and developed special tables and graphics for standard NCHS reports.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

I think it's lack of training and the fact that the really good statisticians are working with scientists on improving methodologies, and that stuff trickles down slowly.

Padded Tush Stats was started by a statistician and survey designer to help answer the question, «THERE ARE A LOT OF CLOTH DIAPERS ON THE MARKET, BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE OF YOUR BABY.