Sentences with phrase «statistical reasoning»

The information will be used for statistical reasons only unless the owner gives written permission to share the information as deemed appropriate.

The primary statistical reason the Jazz have not fallen off is that their defense remains elite.

In order for jurors to accurately weigh the value of testimony by its initial confidence, they will need to use sophisticated statistical reasoning, he says.

In several famous cases, flawed statistical reasoning has sent innocent people to prison.

In each case there is no doubt that statistical reasoning played a part in developing the expertise being brought to bear on the problem.

This whole discussion is a fascinating exercise in detailed statistical reasoning, but the circular tendency implicit in putting model outputs ahead of observation places it squarely outside science.

From trials of the latest wonder drug to the discovery of the Higgs boson, breakthroughs that advance human knowledge are these days seldom made without someone somewhere applying statistical reasoning.

But not only should the results be interpreted with caution for various statistical reasons (stay tuned), some of the news coverage of both the Tour de France and nose bacteria studies has really stretched the interpretation of cause and effect.

For complicated statistical reasons, analyses that look only at the percent - proficient, Polikoff says, «can sometimes give you the opposite answer to the truth as to whether the gaps are opening or closing.»

For statistical reasons which are beyond the scope of this study, we have substituted the ordinal rank for the nominal value for each factor in running our analysis.

A moment's thought by anyone familiar with statistical reasoning will show that the expected cost of the outcome is not the same as the cost of the expected outcome, since cost increases nonlinearly with the extent of the disturbance.

However, simple statistical reasoning indicates that substantial changes in the frequency of extreme events (and in the maximum feasible extreme, e.g., the maximum possible 24 - hour rainfall at a specific location) can result from a relatively small shift of the distribution of a weather or climate variable.

On Monday, a post with the headline «Giroud may start for France Lacazette still better option for Arsenal» (1) appeared on ESPN, and used statistical reasons to explain why Lacazette is a better player than Giroud.

You say that, and you say what is the statistical reasoning» behind your decision, he continues.

For statistical reasons, only companies that received rankings from at least 14 respondents were eligible to become part of the top 20 best employers.

For statistical reasons, Webber's study reported lifetime earnings only by major category — STEM, business, social sciences, and arts / humanities — and reported results only for men.

Each map, such as those for Natural Selection and Statistical Reasoning, shows how students» understanding of a particular topic might progress from the simplest ideas in kindergarten to more sophisticated ideas in high school.

The researchers found that patients receiving usual care were three times more likely to be readmitted or die (one death in usual care group treated as readmission within 30 days for statistical reasons) following surgery than patients receiving NP home visits (11.54 % vs. 3.85 %, respectively).

As they progress through the game, students gather information on epidemiology, biology, ecology, history, social studies, and statistical reasoning, which they evaluate to come up with their theory.

According to Dr Allen all schools in underperforming neighbourhoods have «improved at a faster rate than other schools over the course of parliament and there are all kinds of statistical reasons for that».

These tools include data analysis, statistical reasoning, and scientific inquiry, as well as creative problem solving, nonlinear thinking, and persistence.

For statistical reasons, involving the days of ice cover, the Arctic Ocean was not included in this study.

However there is also a statistical reason for the greater variable.

This might not seem fair, but states typically keep this kind of data for reporting and statistical reasons.