Sentences with phrase «standard statistical techniques»

For years, scientists have used standard statistical techniques to measure the significance of their results or the degree of correlation between two variables.

When estimating the effect of a teacher's gender, I use standard statistical techniques to adjust for the effect of several other teacher and classroom characteristics that may affect student outcomes.

Kellermann took pains to compensate for these other factors using standard statistical techniques of epidemiology.

Normalized age - performance curves have been estimated using standard statistical techniques which allow for differences between sites and over time in wind resources and other factors.

Muller says his team included the raw data in its analysis and then applied standard statistical techniques to remove outliers.

But when standard statistical techniques are applied to cusum charts, the results are far from encouraging.

As a result, we use standard statistical techniques to account for the fact that the cutoff our regression discontinuity analysis exploits is «fuzzy» rather than sharp.

Correlations, of course, do not imply causation and standard statistical techniques, such as the ones used here, are unable to provide much information about the causal processes that might lead from the gene × gene interaction to conduct disorder or to adult antisocial behavior.