Sentences with phrase «statistical correlation»

But statements based on statistical correlations can never tell us about the direction of effects.

Next, they tracked how quickly the cats were adopted, looking for statistical correlations between their facial expressions, movements, and adoption speed.

And yet, we see a strong statistical correlation.

In other words, statistical correlation does not prove causation.

Men's responses demonstrated a positive, significant statistical correlation between seeing photographs of attractive faces and endorsing war - supporting statements.

«Our results show a clear statistical correlation between a high level of language competence and a good working memory in the students we tested,» she says.

This is a fair point, but it goes both ways: the supposed statistical correlation between CO2 and climate change is reversed.

The functions validated in this study showed highly significant statistical correlations with the clinical status of the dogs.

She did, «finding that «beta weights» are the coefficients of the «predictors» in a regression equation used to find statistical correlations between variables.

SMP's compensation committee uses EVA because «the principles of an EVA program have a better statistical correlation with the creation of value for stockholders than a cash incentive program based on performance measures.»

The Excel calculated statistical correlation over 100 years is 0.95.

The actual statistical correlation is 0.21, but because this correlation statistic means little to most people, we tried to come up with meaningful ways to present the results.

moment that is finding that extra band on the gel or that beautiful statistical correlation on your graph.

First, perception is based largely on extracting statistical correlations from sensory inputs.

One series (MacArthur, Florida) has a weak statistical correlation.

We will continue to learn more about nutrition as science progresses, but we should have a better foundation than a handful of unexplained statistical correlations on which to act in the face of uncertainty.

Until now, research has been stymied by the fact that any simplistic statistical correlations between the extent of competition and student achievement that might be found are suspect.

According to Michael Van Beek of the Mackinac Center in his article «The Class Size Myth» (August 2010), there has been no proven statistical correlation between reducing class sizes and increased student achievement.

Ironic to note that in two different studies there was an extraordinary statistical correlation between the percentage of low scoring students that were moved out of the CMT and the proportional increase in CMT scores,.

«If you think about statistical correlation between average life span and body size in mammals it generally tends to be positive - gorillas, elephants and whales are much longer lived than shrews, voles and mice,» says Daniel Promislow, professor of genetics at the University of Georgia.

That is definitely not the case for the other natural variations such as the PDO and the AMO, which rely on fairly crude statistical correlations (fish catches?)

ENSO variability helps explain global temperatures, as it combines statistical correlation with physical science.

This was «debunked», in spite of the strong statistical correlation until 1990, on the basis that the correlation ceases.

Indeed, a recent analysis by the Associated Press found» [n] o statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump.»

Such statistical correlation should be of strong interest to the Corps of Engineers with their responsibilities for flood control.

In a 2008 paper, «Evaluating the links between climate, disease spread, and amphibian declines» the researchers demonstrated just how easy it is to generate meaningless statistical correlations.

The existence of very low statistical correlation coefficients in all of the previous studies attempting to diagnose feedback in the traditional manner is, by itself, evidence of this effect....

[Response: Emanuel's estimate means that globally, the power of hurricanes has increased by ~ 75 % while tropical SST has increased by ~ 0.5 ºC in the hurricane season, and these two are linked by physical theory, models and by statistical correlation.

Therefore, we conclude that despite statistical correlations between SST and Atlantic hurricane activity in recent decades, it is premature to conclude that human activity — and particularly greenhouse warming — has already caused a detectable change in Atlantic hurricane activity.

Statistical correlations of modern and fossil assemblages provide a basis for estimating the approximate makeup of the local or regional vegetation through time.

Miller, of the Dairy Council, says, «Statistical correlations don't prove cause and effect.

When the scientists performed these calculations for more than 24,000 pairs of husbands and wives of European ancestry, they found a strong statistical correlation between people's genetic markers for height and the actual height of their partner.

This causality may result in statistical correlations between ENSO - temperature - CO2 being found.

But going to a mattress store and trying a bunch of mattresses in a row has no statistical correlation to whether you will be happy with it, he claims.

Continuing research at Babson College, regarded as having one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the country, finds no statistical correlation between a startup firm's ultimate revenue or net income and the supposedly requisite written business plan.