Sentences with phrase «researchers estimate the mean»

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Other researchers have used computer models to estimate what an event similar to a Maunder Minimum, if it were to occur in coming decades, might mean for our current climate, which is now rapidly warming.

The study estimates age - adjusted diabetes prevalence for 200 countries — meaning that researchers adjusted the results to account for diabetes becoming more common as a person ages and for some countries having older populations.

Then, the researcher used a mathematical model to translate the quantile estimates into mean and standard deviation of yield.

Because Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago and oceans formed about 4.4 billion years ago, if the researchers» estimates for the fossils» ages are correct, it would mean there was «an almost instantaneous emergence of life.»

The new estimate means that autism rates have more than doubled since 2000, the researchers reported.

These algorithms use indirect respirometry data as their standard.15 This means that researchers measure a bunch of people's energy needs by analyzing the combination of gases expired in their breath, and then make formulas that account for different variables like gender, body mass, and body composition to help you estimate your calorie needs.

«Researchers reanalyzed the LA Times data and came up with different results, and I analyzed the NYC data, and even though NYC uses a pretty rich value - added model that controls for lots of stuff, eliminating much of the bias, that means you're left with relatively noisy estimates, that jump around a lot from year to year.»

«Researchers (17, 18) estimated mean and SD of feedback factors calculated from two different suites of climate models.

The researchers estimated that hundreds of millions of trees were potentially destroyed, equivalent to a significant fraction of the estimated mean annual carbon accumulation for the Amazon forest.

The traditional global mean radiative forcing provides no information about this regional structure, so many researchers have begun to present estimates of radiative forcing on a regional scale as derived from models or observational campaigns.

While different researchers have different best estimates (James Annan, for example, says his best estimate is 2.5 C), uncertainties still mean that estimates can not be narrowed down to a far narrower and more precise range.

Climate researcher Ken Stewart looked closer and found the averaged mean ACORN maximum on 21 December 1972 was 35.91 C, somewhat warmer than the raw average max of 35.1 C at 721 stations on 7 January 2013 but nevertheless a lot cooler than the 40.17 C estimated by the BoM's AWAP national daily procedure.

In a nutshell, my concern was that the estimated ATTRIBUTION of the record to a warming trend versus random variation about the mean was not made INDEPENDENTLY of the 2010 record itself, a record which clearly drew the attention of Stefan and Dim Coumou and other researchers.

In statistics, bias means that a researcher's estimate of a variable or effect is different from the «true» value or effect.

In a landmark study in this area from the early 1990s, researchers estimated the heritability of divorce to be about 50 %.1 What does a heritability estimate like this mean?