Sentences with phrase «significant point estimate»

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Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.

Extrapolating from available statistics, researchers estimate that British - supplied tanks made up 30 to 40 percent of the entire heavy and medium tank strength of Soviet forces before Moscow at the beginning of December 1941, and certainly made up a significant proportion of tanks available as reinforcements at this critical point in the fighting.

January 10, 2011 H1N1 pandemic points to vaccine strategy for multiple flu strains Although the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic infected an estimated 60 million people and hospitalized more than 250,000 in the United States, it also brought one significant benefit — clues about how to make a vaccine that could protect against multiple strains of influenza.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

Comparing Noble high schools only to other charter schools and adjusting for other differences in students» background produces an estimated Noble effect of 13 percentage points on college enrollment — a large, significant difference.

(Of course, the point estimates vary somewhat, albeit not in a statistically significant way — what else should be expected?)

After two years of enrollment, LSP scholarship users scored 0.18 standard deviations (roughly six months of learning) lower than the control group in English Language Arts (ELA), but this point estimate was not statistically significant, meaning that we can not rule out no effect or a positive effect;

Hart points out that the while the Baby Boomer generation, with its significant purchasing power, continues to power pet store sales, current estimates have Millennials outnumbering Boomers by up to several million.

But more to the point, the decade estimate would mean that we would expect some significant reassessment of the models after THIS YEAR, 2008!!

To the contrarian, it is just a matter of time before other uncertainties will yield even lower estimates of sensitivity, until eventually it will fall to the point that it is nothing significant.

At this point we say: «it is significant, we have a theoretical estimate and it agrees with observations.»

Nonetheless, from today's vantage point we think that with significant levels of fuel switching likely required to plug the supply gap created by the impact of the MSR from 2019 onwards, a range of $ 20 - 30 / t seems a reasonable estimate of where EUA prices will have to go over 2019 - 21 to effect the abatement necessary to clear the EU carbon market over 2019 - 21.

In which case please point to a significant cluster of recent studies (preferably, but not necessarily, based upon observations) which support higher estimates of climate sensitivity.

If you know the standard - errors of the various data - point (i.e. global mean temperature) estimates, we can check if it's statistically significant via a difference in means test, while accounting for correlation in estimator distributions (it should be, unless NASA can't measure at all, which I sincerely doubt).

Again there was a significant difference in slopes (χ21 = 5.99; P =.01), now estimated as 8.17 MSI points over the initial 12 - month period (SE = 3.35; 95 % confidence interval, 1.58 - 14.75).

While this improvement was not statistically significant owing to the short time for observing the WLC group after its treatment, the estimated rate of improvement of 7.00 (2 × 3.50) MSI points per year for the WLC group was quite similar to the 6.48 points per year observed for the IMM group.

Equity One, which saw its occupancy decline 160 basis point during the quarter, to 93.5 percent, missed consensus estimates by $ 0.03, as a result of a significant portion of its 19 million square foot portfolio being in the hard - hit state of Florida.