Sentences with phrase «slight biases in»

Statistically both methods appear to have slight biases in opposing directions, so I think the real answer may be in - between.

Contrarians read as much as possible about all the different ways to approach a problem and then they choose their own road, with perhaps a slight bias in favor of the less traveled road.

The fund has a slight bias in favour of value versus growth.

The DC current is produced by only a very slight bias in the electron velocities.

They simply added a slight bias in favor of the Lakers — e.g. whenever they felt a call could go either way, they were more inclined than usual to give it to the Lakers.

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In regard to some of the metrics on the US economy, she remained fairly positive about the US employment outlook, even mentioning wages and a slight upward bias was noted there.

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In the chart below, we see that there is a slight bias for betting against the public.

There has been slight improvement in study reporting or quality, with 44 out of the 73 trials that contributed data (60 %) reporting an approach to allocation concealment that we considered to be at low risk of bias compared to 26 of the 52 trials (50 %) in the previous review (Renfrew 2012b).

Unfortunately, because of the deep biases of the people who TALK about politics in public, the nuts and bolts of winning an election or advocating for legislation are always going to be slighted in favor of the words we use to describe ourselves and our positions: the messaging dominates the discussion, at least on blogs and cable news.

«We found that, apart from slight biases at the extreme ends of the political spectrum, people in Oklahoma — a state where the concept of «global warming» traditionally gets quite a chilly reception — readily perceived feedback from the climate system.»

«I have never had the slightest indication that he has any bias of any kind,» says Phillip Clapham of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, which collaborated on the bowhead whale survey.

The US Dollar Index ($ UUP) had a slight upward bias in the sideways price action while US Treasuries ($ TLT) were biased to continue higher.

The distinction bias describes how when operating in joint evaluation mode we tend to over-emphasize and over weight otherwise slight differences between the subjects.

In essence, the paper, On the Reliability of the U.S. Surface Temperature Record (pdf), concludes that the instrument issues, as long acknowledged, are real, but the poor stations tend to have a slight cool bias, not a warm one.

Menne (2010) addressed this concern and found a slight cool bias in poorly - sited stations.

But there is not the slightest guarantee that the bias remained the same over previous centuries, due to changes in land use, vegetation types, climate,...

My suspicion is that there is a bias in interpretation of XBT data to maintain the idea that the warming of the upper ocean since 1976 is due to increased co2, and the rescaling of XBT data works to reduce the impact of the ARGO data, which shows a «slight cooling» according to Craig Loehle and Josh WIllis (before his arm was twisted), and only a very slight increase according to Levitus 2010.

The process needs to be run by people with impeccable integrity, totally impartial, and not in the slightest biased.

Of significant note, the sign of the bias is counterintuitive to photographic documentation of poor exposure because associated instrument changes led to an artificial negative («cool») bias in maximum temperatures and only a slight positive («warm») bias in minimum temperatures.

I was covering all bases lest any reader who's less inclined to read the paper thought there was a hole in my argument (i.e. that the weighting might possibly apply to the biasing as implied by the slight ambiguity in Section 2, paragraph 2).

Digital thermometers in extremely cold environments would also tend to have a slight warm bias.

«For example, the gradual shift since the 1970s from (warm - biased) ship - based measurements to (cold - biased) drifting buoys has probably led to a slight underestimate of SST warming, says Richard Reynolds of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.»

So with equity markets in a consistent uptrend (as of this writing at least) and bonds stuck in a narrow range with a slight bias toward higher rates, we thought to turn to the Bitcoin conundrum.

Ripple prices remained relatively flat in yesterday's trading, although there was a slight bias to the downside.