Sentences with phrase «over statistical approaches»

Getting past the insults and accusations and (ultimately useful) fights over statistical approaches to studying climate trends in regions (or eras) with sparse data, it's clear to me that this is an area where science will out, in the end.

Not exact matches

With regard to median overall survival (OS), a secondary endpoint, T - VEC had a 4.4 - month advantage over GM - CSF (23.3 months vs 18.9 months [hazard ratio (HR), 0.79 (95 % CI, 0.62 — 1.00); P =.051]-RRB-; this approached but did not achieve statistical significance.

The Times analysis relied on a statistical approach known as «value - added,» which estimates the effectiveness of teachers by crediting them for the gains students make over their performance in previous years on standardized tests in math and English.

In addition, a systematic approach allows investors the ability to implement a statistical edge that works over time not all the time.

Bayesian inference which is now a paradigm in its usage and importance in modern science does have advantages over the frequentist statistical philosophy: it has a more unified approach to data analysis, it incorporates prior professi0nal opinion / external empirical evidence, into results through pi the prior distribution.

A statistical forecast using a regression based approach with fall surface air temperature anomalies over the region as the main predictor was submitted by Tivy (Figure 4) for ice concentration anomalies in September.

The ensemble members are then transformed into a probabilistic forecast distribution using the kernel dressing approach, in which the parameters of the kernels are determined based on the statistical skill over a set of hindcasts, under cross-validation.

The common approach to climate reconstruction from proxies is to use statistical regression to establish a connection between climatic observations and the variability of the proxy over some period of overlap (calibration period).

On page 13255, Mann says: [Sparse proxies before 1500] «poses less of a challenge to the EIV approach, which makes use of nonlocal statistical relationships, allowing temperature changes over distant regions to be effectively represented through their covariance with climatic changes recorded by the network.»

The use of different statistical scaling approaches (including whether the data are smoothed prior to scaling, and differences in the period over which this scaling is carried out) also influences the apparent spread between the various reconstructions.

If the relationship is not linear over the training period, a variety of objective statistical approaches can be used to describe a more complicated relationship than a linear one.

According to Adler's sources, the network contact method has a slight statistical edge over being approached by a recruiter, but you should assign them equal weight.

To advance our understanding of contextual processes such as received social support and unsupportive interactions, it appears beneficial to use a research design that repeatedly assesses daily occurring events (e.g., stress, social support) and outcomes (i.e., negative and positive mood) over time, coupled with a statistical approach that permits the evaluation of within - person relations.