Sentences with phrase «significant errors in calculations»

Amateur climatologist Steve McIntyre, who recently identified a significant error in the calculations behind the very temperature records that tell us the world is warming, reports that NASA and the UK's Climate Research Unit — institutions charged with compiling those records — are now refusing to make their methods available for scrutiny (McIntyre 11.8.2007).

Not exact matches

In addition, the software tool used for nearly two thirds of the meta - analysis calculations contains serious errors that can dramatically underestimate confidence intervals (CIs), and this resulted in at least 1 spuriously statistically significant resulIn addition, the software tool used for nearly two thirds of the meta - analysis calculations contains serious errors that can dramatically underestimate confidence intervals (CIs), and this resulted in at least 1 spuriously statistically significant resulin at least 1 spuriously statistically significant result.

The Earth's oblateness is of course another significant source of error in applying that distance to area and volume calculations, and moreover the pole - equator distance itself varies with time due to the Earth not being totally rigid.)

Looking forward to notes of significant errors in the back of the envelope calculations below.

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