Sentences with phrase «pick other data points»

Not exact matches

Among other data points, Amazon picked my book to be a Kindle monthly deal for August (only about 300 books a month get this privilege).

This is obvious for data — if you've collected 1000 data points, it's not valid to pick out 300 of them and report a posterior distribution that ignores the other 700.

It is perfectly valid to point out that certain of these predictions are a) typos or made up numbers (take your pick), like the Himalayan glacier vanishing act, b) subject to wide disagreement between models, c) not supported by the data, like Hansen's 1988 model forecast, d) other.

In other words, they cherry - picked their data to invent a Hotspot — as pointed out in a subsequent publication by PJ Michaels and PC Knappenberger [see graph below]