Sentences with phrase «of ordinary least»

We conducted negative binomial regression analysis instead of ordinary least squares regression analysis because accuracy of surrogate estimation was a count variable displaying overdispersion (i.e., its variance is larger than its mean).

This correlation structure approximates the results of an ordinary least squares regression while ignoring the lack of independence among the observations.

Time series of global - mean surface temperature from 1979 to 1998, repeated from Figure 2.3, shown with a trend line fitted by the method of ordinary least squares.

Because temperature data violates one of the assumptions of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression - that all the data are independent observations.

For both datasets, the trends are computed using the method of ordinary least squares.

Not exact matches

In their February 2017 paper entitled «Bayesian Model Averaging, Ordinary Least Squares and the Price of Gold», Dirk Baur and Brian Lucey analyze a large set of factors that potentially influence the price of gold via two methods: Ordinary Least Squares (OLS, scatter plot) and Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA, accounting for model uncertainty).

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But when a legal contract calls itself marriage and sanctions same - sex marriage, then it's not marriage, at least not in the ordinary meaning of the word, and certainly not in the Christian meaning.

Indeed, many of the specific things they portray are beyond imitation, at least for ordinary mortals.

It seemed to me that the truly sovereign God could not be regarded as absent or superfluous in ordinary human experience and philosophical reflection, but that every single reality should prove incomprehensible (at least in its depth) without recourse to God, if he actually was the Creator of the world as Barth thought him to be.

But at least four interrelated themes in Plato's proposals about the education of ideal rulers took on a life of their own and did shape ordinary paideia as the Christians knew it centuries later.

I was incredibly vulnerable and if I had noticed ANYTHING out of the ordinary that was a «sign» I probably would have seized it and then who knows, I might be on this blog agreeing with everything you're saying (to some extent at least, as I grew up Jewish, so I think we'd still be at odds, just slightly less so).

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

And even though we have no ordinary experience of the soul separated from its body, it is at least possible that the soul could prehend itself or other souls more directly without bodily mediation.

First, Christians in the past, from theologians to preachers to ordinary believers, have engaged in such speculation — or at least accepted the speculations of others.

What else, indeed, could have led him to speculate that sight involves no bodily disturbance — at least none of any ordinary type — except the fact that he did not feel any.

The case I like to give my bioethics students to illustrate the point — not least because it was pivotal in the historical formulation of the ordinary / extraordinary distinction — is the battlefield amputation of a limb without pain medication, in order to save a soldier's life.

The term «God» at least means that reality or dimension of reality which can not simply be equated with ordinary experience, but which yet discloses itself concretely in ordinary experience as the source of its reality and value.

However, since the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has shown an unprecedented lack of conviction, at least as far as the ordinary Catholic is concerned.

Still, manifestations of pride, at least in its more ordinary sense of conceit or presumption, have been discernible from the outset.

At the very least please take the reference to him off your home page — his contribution, (ill informed rants), to the daily living of ordinary people does not warrant that degree of validation, attention or publicity.

The conclusion: given relatively unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal access to their drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.

Even before the axial period, archaic or primal religions already had an at least embryonic sense of a sacral dimension that could interrupt life and bestow on it a wider significance than that given in ordinary existence.

As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.

«Three beliefs about God were tested separately in ordinary least squares regression models to predict five classes of psychiatric symptoms: general anxiety, social anxiety, paranoia, obsession, and compulsion,» reads the abstract for this paper.

I can not but think that the most important step forward that has occurred in psychology since I have been a student of that science is the discovery, first made in 1886, that, in certain subjects at least, there is not only the consciousness of the ordinary field, with its usual centre and margin, but an addition thereto in the shape of a set of memories, thoughts, and feelings which are extra-marginal and outside of the primary consciousness altogether, but yet must be classed as conscious facts of some sort, able to reveal their presence by unmistakable signs.

Harned prefers to say that patience can sometimes be a vice and impatience a virtue, and perhaps that move has, at least, the virtue of sticking quite close to our ordinary moral intuitions.

Pastors who know how to lead laity into ministry have at least two leadership characteristics in common: They talk about the presence of God in the ordinary situations of daily life, and they are able to structure the life of a congregation so that members are encouraged and able to give ministry to one another.

Whether he has ever seen a devil, as Mantel did as a girl — «It has no edges, no mass, no dimension, no shape except the formless; it moves» — is ultimately unimportant; his novels are the work of a man who believes in devils, or at least in their possibility, and the possibility that one of his ordinary Americans could encounter one by chance.

George W. Bush's administration imagined itself bringing freedom to Iraq (and by extension to the rest of the Middle East), confident that, released from the grip of a tyrant, ordinary people will become American, or at least friendly to America.

«At least in today's statistical terms, Cade McNown was pretty ordinary, but man, did he look great to my 15 - year old eyes, which made the possibility of the local team going to the national championship kind of fun until Edgerrin James was all like, â $ ˜ Nope.»

That Jackson is again playing baseball for the Chicago White Sox makes no sense, at least not within the usual, logical boundaries of science and baseball — and certainly not within the limits of ordinary people, a segment of the population to which he never has been assigned.

To qualify for Ordinary Paternity Leave you must tell your employer at least 15 weeks before the start of the week when the baby's due (or within 7 days of being told you've been matched for adoption):

If you are an employee and have been with your employer for at least 26 weeks by the end of the 15th week before the start of the week when the baby is due, you are entitled to a minimum of two weeks» ordinary paternity leave.

I know that for a lot of people birth seems like this magical process (or at least seems like it ought to be) but all these people are losing sight of the fact that it's really a very ordinary thing.

It is a testament to an engaged community that a number of decisions made in Arlington Heights, Palatine and Buffalo Grove this year were impacted — to say the least — by the ordinary people who spoke.

It has even been argued that along with the decline in royal power should come the right to vote: if our new King lacks special constitutional powers, why shouldn't he at least enjoy the ordinary constitutional power the rest of us exercise?

Spending on this publicity campaign was at least ten times more than anything ever spent before and far beyond the means of the left and centre, let alone ordinary party members.

Ed Balls is judged the least likeable and least in touch with the lives of ordinary voters.

With the selling off of council houses making it even more difficult for families to find suitable accommodation, Mr Draper insisted that the Prime Minister should give up his residence at the publicly owned Chequers — one of at least three the Prime Minister enjoys, and have it converted into affordable flats for ordinary families.

Encouraged by friends, Gordon, already the least popular of the party leaders, decided that what Labour really needed was more of him talking to ordinary folks.

GHOST IN THE SHELL What looked like an ordinary supernova, shown in this artist's illustration, might be the result of a single star exploding at least three times, blowing off expanding shells of gas each time.

Two research teams have found that a handful of mutations allow H5N1 to spread like ordinary flu while staying just as deadly, at least in ferrets.

And I entered their house and I saw that it was very tastefully decorated and that there was no evidence on the lower floors, at least the main floor, that there was any kind of connection with mathematics or science; the [re] were just ordinary kinds of pictures, but very, very tasteful.

And, too, GPS may be a perfect example of technology that reaches the market the moment it becomes unnecessary — at least where ordinary consumers are concerned.

In addition to ordinary water and water vapor, or steam, there are at least 17 forms of water ice, and two proposed forms of super-cooled liquid water.

Astronauts do extraordinary things — but this funny, endearing memoir reveals that at least one of them is an ordinary guy at heart.

It's known indirectly through its gravitational effects (based on these, scientists think dark matter outweighs ordinary matter by a factor of at least five).

For at least 1,200 years, Chinese cooks have fermented ordinary non-glutinous (non-sticky, Chinese - style) white rice with a «starter» of molded red rice to make red yeast rice.

And if you choose an ordinary multi-vitamin that you get at a corner store, it most likely contains at least some synthetic forms of vitamins (unless it specifically states that it is whole - foods based).