Sentences with phrase «robust estimates»

The government must prepare properly, by providing the most robust estimates it can.

CallHap can then be used to sequence hundreds of individuals at once, says Cruzan: «We were motivated to develop this method to provide sequence data from whole chloroplast genomes for large numbers of plants, to generate the large sample sizes needed for robust estimates of seed dispersal.»

Bootstrapping is performed to ensure robust estimates of confidence intervals.

The ensembles need to be as big as possible to obtain robust estimates of the probability of rare events.

So, we get the kind of overcaffeinated enthusiasm that turns value - added from a smart tool into a public crusade... When the shortcomings become clear, when reanalysis shows that some teachers were unfairly dinged, or when it becomes apparent that some teachers were scored using sample sizes too small to generate robust estimates, value - added will suffer a heated backlash.»

To derive statistically robust estimates of ΔT 2x we therefore approximate the inferred relationship between ΔT 2x and LGM SST cooling by a linear regression (Fig. 6, solid red curve).

«It's very, very difficult to see really robust estimates of people's illegal behaviour, and they've done a great job in doing that,» says E. J. Milner - Gulland, a conservation scientist at Imperial College London.

The world's best site for tidal power, the Pentland firth, could provide half of Scotland «s electricity, according to the first robust estimate of its potential.

Then it will be a wait of more than a year before more robust estimates from the IEA will be available, in the second half of 2019, although it has already made as - yet - unpublished preliminary estimates.

a. Due to the limited sample size of the Survey of Consumer Finances, we use households headed by 24 to 30 year - olds to ensure robust estimates.

The ensembles need to be as big as possible to obtain robust estimates of the probability of such rare events.

When the shortcomings become clear, when reanalysis shows that some teachers were unfairly dinged, or when it becomes apparent that some teachers were scored using sample sizes too small to generate robust estimates, value - added will suffer a heated backlash.

Prior to the mid-1990s, the understanding of forest change in the Congo Basin, which remains for the most part a notoriously difficult region for researchers to access, was largely based on patchy and anecdotal information without spatially explicit delineation on forests or statistically robust estimates of forest cover change.

A 16 - year study was used for robust estimates of the yield potential on organically managed crop land in southern Wisconsin as well as nitrous oxide and methane emissions and soil carbon.

There are several reasons why it may be useful to have a more robust estimate of future expected returns on stocks:

«The House will understand that it is too early to give a robust estimate of the costs of the operations in Libya, but I can say that they should be modest compared with some other operations, such as Afghanistan.

And it can get a robust estimate of rain - fed corn around the world by using 49 climate zones.

In the study, researchers used a novel combination of global climate models and observed data to deliver a robust estimate of the global loss of permafrost under climate change.

The study provides «updated and more robust estimates» of the risk of MSI in Gulf War veterans, compared to other military personnel.

The 97 % consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) reported by Cook et al. (2013)(C13) is a robust estimate.

The very large ensemble of solar - like stars included in this study enables detailed and robust estimates of the relation between chromospheric activity and the occurrence of superflares.

On the first point, a really remarkably new study, published online in Geographical Reviews last month, builds a robust estimate of sea ice conditions across the Arctic month by month from January 1850, the tail end of the «little ice age,» through 2013 by consolidating vast amounts of ice data from ship captains, military flights, coastal settlements and other sources.

To estimate robustly where the maximum is, you can calculate an expected value of the latitude using a high power of the precipitation distribution as the weighting function; gives the maximum, but gives a robust estimate in practice, which smooths over the discretization of the data.

It's through a combination of all available data that scientists are able to get a robust estimate of how temperatures are changing.

Linear regression was first conducted in the total clinically referred sample (n = 216), to obtain a more robust estimate of these relations in clinically referred children.