Sentences with phrase «statistical exercise»

A more interesting statistical exercise would be what actions are likely to be taken.

When it comes to pricing matches and even longer - term outright markets such as Premier League champion, setting is a largely statistical exercise.

Since the paper in question was a purely statistical exercise, and Steig reminds us that he's «not a statistician», why was he a qualified reviewer in the first place?

So if the Indigenous Expenditure Report could assist governments to target expenditures at areas of greatest need, or in a manner that ensures greatest efficiency and effectiveness, even at a very general level, or if it could tell us something about the adequacy of the spend it would be a very valuable investment — although no estimate is provided of what this complex statistical exercise cost.

«What we don't want is another statistical exercise by the government where boxes need to be ticked.»

IBFAN's monitoring is not a statistical exercise, but it is clear that Danone (profile extract, above left, 39 pages of violations) is becoming as bad as Nestlé (profile extract, above right 42 pages, not counting its new Wyeth acquisition) as they compete around the world.

The former goes out on a limb; the latter should be easy to demonstrate as a statistical exercise with a simple energy balance model.

(He actually found a negative and significant relationship in some statistical exercises.)

This statistical exercise, against which children and then used by DfE and Ofsted to determine whether the school has been successful as an institution, or whether it is «coasting», «requires improvement» or «inadequate» embraces a toxic methodology which our sector has not only discounted but actually can not play any part in, even if we wished.

He modestly describes his work as a statistical exercise and declines to be firm about the causative mechanisms but he appears to be on to something.

The paper is largely a statistical exercise in any case.