Sentences with phrase «solid statistical study»
«This is the first really solid statistical study I've seen which shows principles about language decline that we've know about, but hadn't been able to put together in a sound way,» says Leanne Hinton, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Statistical mechanics was developed to study solids, gasses and liquids at macroscopic scales, but is now used to describe a variety of complex states of matter, from magnetism to superconductivity.
The study has solid geographical sampling, and the team's statistical analysis of two DNA genomes — mitochondrial and nuclear — shows pretty good evidence for the new species, says Bryan Stuart, a curator of herpetology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, who was not involved in the work.
Some of the officemates specialized in the study of solids and liquids (now called condensedmatter physics) under the guidance of Kotani and his assistant Ryogo Kubo, who was later to attain fame for his theorems in statistical mechanics.