Sentences with phrase «population size assumes»

The estimated population size assumes that only 50 % of the interior population was trapped in a given year.

Not exact matches

«These populations look the same — they have similar plumage and are similar in size and shape — but assuming that populations that sing differently tend not to interbreed, this means that species - level diversity in the Neotropics is underestimated.»

Estimates of current and ancestral population sizes (Ne1 = 1,600,000; Ne2 = 780,000; Nancestral = 470,000), divergence time (1,800,000 years and assuming a generation time of 1 year), and gene flow (2Nm1autosomal = 1.69; 2Nm2autosomal = 0.83; 2Nm1X - chromosome = 0.38; 2Nm2X - chromosome = 0.26) were obtained from previous studies and inferred using an Isolation - with - Migration model [21], [26].

We first estimate the statistical relationship between the size of the Catholic population in 1900 and the extent of private schooling today in order to capture only that share of the private sector's size that can be attributed to 19th - century Catholic policies — policies we assume to be otherwise unrelated to contemporary student achievement.

The simulation spans a period of 12 months and assumes that the fund had 30 investors; in this case, the sample size is the entire population.

In journal article after journal article, and book after book, I found cat - predation studies that were flawed by small sample size, samples that were not shown to be typical, unjustified generalizations, a failure to account for confounding factors, and a tendency to assume that predation of individual birds necessarily resulted in damage to bird populations at the species level.

Therefore, why not assume that the goal is minimization of population size?

I'm assuming we are talking about optimal population size for millenia.

If you assume that there are 100,000 climate scientists in the world (there's not that many, but it's a convenient number that makes a critical point), that the results are accurate to 4 % as per the STATS page you link to, and that the population size is 489 (as per the STATS survey), the confidence level is 98.44 %.

Of course, all of this assuming — from the assumption that our population of readers is a true representation of the whole population and on to the assumption that each day's crop of kids is the same size — has to produce wobbly results.