Overbooking flights is a legal and common airline practice; travelers cancel plans at the last minute, they show up late... it's a numbers game: The airline builds in a buffer of oversold seats to offset the number of people
their statistical models predict will back out.
Publication (Open access): Aalto, J., Harrison, S., Luoto, M.
Statistical modelling predicts almost complete loss of major periglacial processes in Northern Europe by 2100.
Campaigns already used algorithms to infer political and demographic attributes about voters they couldn't contact directly; why couldn't those same
statistical models predict innate psychological characteristics, as well?
Not exact matches
Machine translation creates
statistical models that try to
predict patterns of words and phrases.
Our estimate of the likely success of Remain and Leave in each local authority are the values
predicted for that authority by this
statistical model.
Two years ago I developed a simple
statistical model that tries to
predict the outcome of general elections from local election results.
However, the
statistical models are no longer
predicting that Labour will outperform their polling numbers.
Medicines that are personally tailored to your DNA are becoming a reality, thanks to the work of U.S. and Chinese scientists who developed
statistical models to
predict which drug is best for a specific individual with a specific disease.
The investigators combined daily averages into two - year averages and used a
statistical model to
predict concentrations in areas across the United States without a monitor.
Then they mapped out the millions of citations to those papers, and searched for a
statistical model that best
predicted scientists» future success based on their early publication history.
Through iterative testing and tweaking of their computational tools, the investigators built a
statistical model that
predicts the postmortem interval of unknown samples to within 55 accumulated degree - days, or about two days in summertime.
Background Often, the frequency of outcomes for an event can be
modeled and
predicted using
statistical analysis.
Using geospatial analysis and
statistical modeling, she and Pimm created a new map that
predicted the locations within the mountainous region where each endemic species could best survive.
Statistical models analyzing plasma had reasonable ability to
predict total disease duration and used seven relevant biomarkers.
Specifically, we ran a
statistical model that used the last grade served by the school that a student attended in grade 3 to
predict whether the student attended a middle school.
Incorporating rich information on students» high school performance, placement test scores, and demographics, we developed
statistical models to
predict how remediated students would have performed had they been placed directly into college - level courses.
Her
statistical model ultimately
predicts that the education quality will be higher in districts with stronger union density than in districts with weak unionism.
The project Achievement Trajectory Tool applies a data - driven
statistical model to
predict the longitudinal achievement growth in reading comprehension and science across grades 3 - 8 of students receiving Science IDEAS in grades 3 - 5 in comparision with students not receiving Science IDEAS (i.e., receiving traditional reading / language arts instead of Science IDEAS).
This
model uses
statistical calculations to
predict the likelihood that the student's current growth trajectory will result in proficiency by a target date.
A teacher's observation scores are supplemented by a so - called «value - added» rating, which is calculated by determining whether a teacher's students made greater gains on standardized tests than
statistical models would have
predicted.
Using a
statistical technique called value - added
modeling, the Teacher Data Reports compare how students are
predicted to perform on the state ELA and math tests, based on their prior year's performance, with their actual performance.
Testing experts use
statistical models to
predict test - score increases.
If the
statistical model is based on good background information, such as prior test scores that strongly
predict future test scores, this may work very well.
Quantitative Analysis is referred to as the economic, business or financial analysis that aims to
predict or understand behaviour or events through the use of mathematical measurements and calculations,
statistical modelling and research.
An insurer uses actuarial knowledge (claims history,
statistical models) to
predict claims, and then prices the policy to ensure premiums exceed risk plus costs and profit.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) defines a «credit score» as «a numerical value or a categorization derived from a
statistical tool or
modeling system used by a person who makes or arranges a loan to
predict the likelihood of certain credit behaviors, including default...»
When it is assumed that the CO2 content of the atmosphere is doubled and
statistical thermal equilibrium is achieved, the more realistic of the
modeling efforts
predict a global surface warming of between 2 °C and 3.5 °C, with greater increases at high latitudes.
The beauty of computer
modelling is when real features are
predicted, and the combination of empirical -
statistical models with physics - based
models enhance our confidence of actual predictive skills.
My simple regression - based
statistical climate
model predicts global carbon dioxide, surface temperature & sea level at yearly time steps.
Yuan et al. (LDEO Columbia University), 5.08 (+ / - 0.51),
Statistical The prediction is made by statistical models, which are capable to predict Arctic sea ice concentrations at grid points 3 - month in advance with reasona
Statistical The prediction is made by
statistical models, which are capable to predict Arctic sea ice concentrations at grid points 3 - month in advance with reasona
statistical models, which are capable to
predict Arctic sea ice concentrations at grid points 3 - month in advance with reasonable skills.
Since its inception 8 years ago, the NCAR / CU sea ice pool has easily rivaled much more sophisticated efforts based on
statistical methods and physical
models to
predict the September monthly mean Arctic sea ice extent (e.g. see appendix of Stroeve et al. 2014 in GRL doi: 10.1002 / 2014GL059388; Witness the Arctic article by Hamilton et al. 2014 http://www.arcus.org/witness-the-arctic/2014/2/article/21066).
Lobell, D. B. and M. B. Burke, 2010: On the use of
statistical models to
predict crop yield responses to climate change.
Klazes (Public), 3.6 (95 % confidence interval of + / - 0.9),
Statistical September extent is
predicted using an estimated minimum value of the PIOMAS arctic sea ice volume and a simple
model for volume - extent relationship.
If Hansen had employed this strategy, his
model would have
predicted the band of temperatures in which the observed temperature would lie in each
statistical event and not the temperature.
This is in agreement with the
statistical model of Tivy (see June report) that
predicts below - normal ice concentrations, comparable to 2009.
This is consistent with both the June and July (Figure 3) ensemble predictions from a coupled ice - ocean
model submitted by Zhang, which show considerably more ice in the East Siberian Sea compared to 2009, and it is consistent with the June
statistical forecasts submitted by Tivy, which also
predict a greater ice area than in 2009 and above - normal ice concentrations along the coasts.
Why should you trust any
statistical model (by «any» I mean «any») unless it can skillfully
predict new data?
Hamilton, 4.0 + / - 0.3,
Statistical A simple regression
model for NSIDC mean September extent as a function of mean daily sea ice area from August 1 to 5, 2012 (and a quadratic function of time)
predicts a mean September 2012 extent of 4.02 million km2, with a confidence interval of plus or minus.32.
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Constructing a
statistical model of the ozone variability, we have been able to
predict the tendency in the land air T evolution till the end of the current decade.
If there is a match between the
predicted and observed relative frequencies with respect to each possible outcome, the
model is said to be «validated» by the
statistical evidence.
If the relation between extent and volume is known, the extent may be
predicted with better accuracy than a
statistical model based on extent alone.
The
statistical testing of a predictive
model features a comparison of
predicted to the observed relative frequencies of the various possible outcomes in the observed events that belong to a
statistical sample which was drawn from the underlying population.
Going forward, if we stick with climatology and its 30 year averaging period then in order to provide policy makers with information about the outcomes from their policy decisions we need to come up with independent variable and dependent variable time series that are of much greater duration than the HADCRUT3, for 150 observed events is about the bare minimum for a statistically validated
model that
predicts with
statistical significance.
Subsequently, however, based on
statistical models that employ semi-empirical relationships between past and
predicted future increases in global temperature, Vermeer and Rahmsdorf (2009), Jevrejeva et al. (2010) and Grinsted et al. (2010) derived much greater increases on the order of 60 to 190 cm over the same time interval.
For the first time, scientists have compared the latest predictions for global warming with a range of
statistical models, commonly used to
predict the spread of malaria.
To this aim they study all available historical information in a
statistical manner, rather than attempt to build deterministic
models predicting the far future.
It is by comparison of the
predicted to the observed outcomes of
statistical events that a
model is statistically validated.
Centre for Polar Observation and
Modelling (CPOM) / Schroeder et al, 5.40 (4.90 - 5.90),
Statistical We
predict the September ice extent 2014 to be similar to last year.
Reynolds (Public), 4.06 (3.49 - 4.63),
Statistical / Heuristic Because the decline in extent is due to increasing ease with which open water can be revealed by declining volume, a simple method is used to
predict September sea ice extent based on May sea ice volume for the Arctic Ocean from the PIOMAS
model.