Sentences with phrase «significant number of data points»

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These guys and gals refuse to consider the possibility that a «school reform» which reduces students and teachers to data points simply can not produce significant numbers of capable, well - rounded, well - adjusted young people.

Significant numbers of trading strategies are already destined to prove disappointing, a point that recent data on the distribution of hedge fund returns seem to be confirming.

It shows a significant negative trend, Fred, because you've artificially inflated the number of points by using monthly rather than yearly data.

Note that a value like r2 = 0.24 is not necessarily meaningless — indeed, for the number of data points involved here (between 50 and 60), this is probably statistically significant relative to a standard «red noise» null hypothesis.

My point at that time was that the number of CRN 1 and CRN 2 stations was very small and that given the noisy data for temperature trends amongst even closer spaced stations meant that in order to see a statistically significant difference due to CRN rating would require a very large difference in trends or a larger number of stations in those classifications.

A hint for you Nick, the number of statistically significant points on my graph reflects the temperature data.

The number of data points was not large, but the difference is significant at a level of α = 0.05 (p - value = 0.016).

Some commenters pointed out that often only a few data elements or a single element is extracted from the patient record and disclosed to a researcher, and that having to account for so singular a disclosure from what could potentially be an enormous number of records imposes a significant burden.