Sentences with phrase «statistical anomaly»

You need a whole bureaucratic apparatus devoted to reducing any possible loss to a gross accumulation of statistical anomalies.

It also has the distinction of having both the highest incidence of violent crime and the lowest incidence of total crime relative to the national median — a unique statistical anomaly.

Are these extremely large markets also home to such statistical anomalies, or is market efficiency winning out in this case?

If what you say is true, there should be a significant statistical anomaly.

«We had probably the most unique statistical anomaly in my 50 years of doing this,» the founder and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts told analysts on a conference call.

It leaves us with a mess, and few firm statistics to work from, but it is better to be approximately right and somewhat uncertain, than to be precisely wrong with tidy statistical anomalies bearing the overglorified title «facts.»

An Ofsted spokesperson said «Our inspectors are used to dealing with statistical anomalies and cases where data might not be reliable, so we have every confidence that schools will not be disadvantaged over this issue.

Investors should guard against excessive bets on unexplained statistical anomalies (e.g., the January effect for small stocks).

Always conduct your own research as statistical anomalies can exist, especially in instances of short - term earnings fluctuations skewing payout ratio.

His own creative process begins in the DWH department, searching for statistical anomalies.

This surge in quakes might be a temporary statistical anomaly.

The statistics for this aspect of the problem suggest that our existence around a yellow dwarf star today, compared to a red dwarf star in the future, might be a slight statistical anomaly — perhaps on the order of finding oneself born ambidextrous or with perfect pitch.

But this annoying statistical anomaly shouldn't overshadow the remarkable fact that he won more than half the races he finished.

Isn't it remarkable that Hansen writes an op - ed with an apparent peripheral glitch poking out of a bulky and dire implication and the glitch becoming the topic of the day, while Lindzen can claim in his respective op - ed that there's no recent statistical anomaly in record temperatures and get away with it without a peep?

The same sort of statistical anomaly was discovered with Madoff... good returns in even the most turbulent times.

A decision is patently unreasonable when the defect is obvious, and in this case the only support for the original decision was an unexplained statistical anomaly.

Is this just a statistical anomaly?

I am not a statistical anomaly.

Because statistical anomalies is not proof that prayer works.

One of tonight's 10 college basketball games features a team that has produced quite the statistical anomaly.

This statistical anomaly is called «love.»

It would also be nice to put to bed a statistical anomaly born of Bradford's very brief rise to the top tier of English football: we haven't actually won at Valley Parade in 90 years.

In case you think this is a statistical anomaly, and in that season United lost only against those rivals, think again.

Of course, that is a statistical anomaly because our draws replaced the losses of others, but you have to wonder if that squad could have set record tallies had they taken a few more risks, winning a few more games at the cost of also losing a few.

You are not a statistical anomaly.

Or is this simply due to a statistical anomaly in the Senate (where just a few races can swing the majority)?

Amedore is something of a statistical anomaly.

Vivek Sharma, Higgs search coordinator at the CMS collaboration, agrees that the two experiments have a small discrepancy on what the supposed Higgs mass would be, and that tantalizing hints of new physics from other experiments have often turned out to be statistical anomalies.

One poker - playing physicist is a statistical anomaly; two is a coincidence; three, and it might just be a pattern.

Statistical anomalies are inevitable; that is the hallmark of true randomness.

Marked Movies and Cinema Parrot Disco find themselves victims to a statistical anomaly: who would have thought a bad Joaquin Phoenix performance even possible?

There's an irony embedded in that streak that Moneyball can't bring itself to acknowledge: Running off 20 games straight is a statistical anomaly, and should be tossed out along with Beane's own lingering superstitions.

This statistical anomaly is created by a system of mass education that believes everyone learns in the same way, compounded by teaching that does not take into consideration individual approaches to learning - pushing learners through like cattle to achieve curriculum goals because someone believes they can do it if sufficiently challenged.

The widely reported plummet in the number of young black men attending college is in fact largely a statistical anomaly caused by the increasing number of white women who opt for higher education, a new study by the RAND Corporation contends.

I was a statistical anomaly growing up in New Orleans: a black boy from a relatively well - off family in a city with one of the widest racial wealth gaps in the country.

David Roudebush, the district's assistant superintendent, says the district recognized the spike as «a statistical anomaly» but says no «real conclusions can be drawn due to multiple factors that can affect results.»

If we discount the statistical anomalies (like my posts debunking a few myths on the Icelandic political situation which are the most popular pieces I've ever written, unfortunately) an ebook post tends to get more than ten times more traffic than a post on any other subject published at a roughly similar time of day and day of week.

While this is a statistical anomaly, surely there is someone out there who thinks there's an investing strategy to exploit this «trend».

While this is a statistical anomaly, surely

Were those statistical anomalies predictable?

I realize that these could be statistical anomalies, but Gross Domestic Purchases is far closer to what the average American feels than GDP or GNP.

Is this result just some statistical anomaly?