Sentences with phrase «skew the result towards»

To be fair, blowouts can skew your results towards the higher numbers, so let's take a look at all data points:

However, just crunching differences in home prices can skew results towards communities that have poor prospects — that is, neighbourhoods that are cheap because they're mired by social problems, lack amenities or are plagued by anemic local economic growth.

I would not use a uniform sensitivity prior today and agree with Nic, you and Annan that this skews results towards high sensitivities.

Not exact matches

As a result, justice is skewed towards investor protection.

Players who pitch really badly their first year back might not get a second year, so wouldn't the data get more skewed towards good results as you get farther from the surgery and pitchers who aren't good enough to stick in the MLB drop out of the dataset?

Is this open for intentional gaming (via tactical voting) or unintentional skewing of the results towards a film or location, where the winning result does not match most people's preferences?

However, in the Hungarian system, surplus votes of the party winning the constituency go towards the list as well, skewing the result away from proportionality.

Google, for instance, has attracted the scrutiny of the US Federal Trade Commission, which last month launched an antitrust investigation to determine whether the company's search results skew towards businesses with which it is aligned and away from its competitors.

The results tend to be skewed towards both obese and young people3.

Tribal economics like Crow are skewed towards fossil fuels as a result of historic leasing policies by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, complimented by large amounts of fossil fuel influence, and a lack of re-indigenized and long - term self sustainable development strategies.

The results are clearly skewed towards that sector, but they are interesting even so.

Depending on how many people purchase short - term plans, the risk pool for ACA - compliant plans could become more healthy skewed towards sicker, older consumers, resulting in increased premiums.

Previous research from the former waves of the Bergen Child Study (a longitudinal study nested within youth@hordaland) has also identified psychological problems as a predictor for non - participation.70 As the current sample may be skewed towards better socioeconomic status and psychological health, the results may be a conservative estimate of the number of adolescents growing up in poor families and their associated mental health problems.

This paper hypothesises that the population of children receiving a clinical diagnosis of ADHD is aetiologically heterogeneous: that within this population, there is a group for whom the development of ADHD is largely genetically driven, and another who have a «phenocopy» of ADHD as a result of very adverse early childhood experiences, with the prevalence of this phenocopy being heavily skewed towards populations living with poverty and violence.