Sentences with phrase «statistical studies show»

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A transportation study by the statistical analysis media site FiveThirtyEight showed that completing 85 percent of trips on public transit and 15 percent with Uber roughly equaled the cost of car ownership.
But they sometimes succumb to the temptation to overstate the statistical connection between abortion and clinical depression — rather than simply share stories of real women experiencing post-abortion grief, they exaggerate the pervasiveness of the condition beyond what mental health studies show.
Statistical studies do not show any effects from praying.
I saw these statistical studies that showed Arsenal's record under Mike Dean is statistically significantly different than that under all other refs combined.
According to Robert Hall, professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City, there was no statistical difference in growth, language development, vision or cognitive development among the children studied, although in most categories the breast - fed infants did show slightly better performance.
Studies have shown no statistical difference in test scores of homeschooled children taught by parents who were certified teachers and homeschooled children who were taught by parents without teaching certificates.
Widely publicized attempts to replicate major findings have shown that study results that scientists and the public took for granted might be no more than a statistical fluke.
Using multiple statistical approaches to study a long - term pediatric cohort in Nicaragua, we show that risk of severe dengue disease is highest within a narrow range of preexisting anti-DENV antibody titers.
But that study did not include a statistical analysis that could show whether this decline was significantly different from previous observations.
The University of Florence team's 2011 statistical analysis of health outcomes for almost 1,700 male patients showed that those involved in stable extramarital relationships had about twice the cardiovascular disease as other patients in the study, particularly if the man reported that his wife was still sexually interested in him.
«Our study shows how application of interdisciplinary statistical approaches, coupled with informed models of collective motion can help extract useful biological information about social interactions in schools of fish.
«This is the first really solid statistical study I've seen which shows principles about language decline that we've know about, but hadn't been able to put together in a sound way,» says Leanne Hinton, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley.
«Study shows cycling as number one cause of cervical fractures in men: Collaborative effort utilizing statistical analysis allowed for search of 50,000 patient cases in national database.»
The study has solid geographical sampling, and the team's statistical analysis of two DNA genomes — mitochondrial and nuclear — shows pretty good evidence for the new species, says Bryan Stuart, a curator of herpetology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, who was not involved in the work.
Recently released data shows that Millennials are getting married later and, in growing numbers, may not get married at all, according to a statistical study by Olin College Professor of Computer Science Allen Downey.
«Our studies confirmed that statistical relationship, but at the same time showed that people with faith are more prosocial and empathic,» he said.
The study, published on 4 October in Lancet Infectious Diseases, also showed that oral contraceptive use by women increased the risk of HIV infection for both women and men with infected partners, but the numbers generated did not rise to statistical significance.
Because the Bell violation is a statistical test requiring a substantial sample of trials, notes Joint Quantum Institute physicist and study co-author Christopher Monroe, «we have to waste time building up statistics just to show a violation.»
It is usually a result that has a statistical significance that is rather low so that you might have a 20 percent difference (UNCLEAR (4.17) or a relative risk of 1.2 or something like that; and so it is easy when you have risks that are so small or the differences are so small to have one study show one kind of result and another study show a different kind of result.
So far, «genome - wide association studies» have identified variant DNA sequences showing statistical association with these and other complex diseases, but demonstrating a mechanistic role for these variants has proven elusive.
In a normal efficacy study, the researchers start with the assumption that the drug doesn't work, and allow themselves to be «surprised» if the statistical analysis shows that the drug has worked much better than expected.
Phthalates are considered endocrine disrupters, and studies have shown a statistical association between phthalate exposure and male sexual development.
The additional two human studies were split, with one of them supporting cooling, while another lacked statistical significance to show icing's efficacy.
In the current study, we showed no association with folic - acid supplement use, but we had very limited statistical power to assess this association (only 1 % of participants reported the use of a folic - acid supplement).
This concern stems in part from statistical studies that show the
«All of the charter schools in the study either outperformed or showed no statistical difference when compared to traditional schools,» the report read.
As per an article in The Albuquerque Journal, he «stressed that numerous studies [emphasis added] show that teachers make a big impact on student success,» expressly contradicting the American Statistical Association (ASA) on the stand, while also (only) referencing (non-representative) studies of primarily his econ - friends (e.g. Raj Chetty, Eric Hanushek, Doug Staiger) and studies of his own (e.g, as per his Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies).
There's no definitive evidence, but various statistical studies have shown that bail bonds are associated with, and may be a cause of, lower no - show rates.
So... I'm describing this slide show to the other professional writers at lunch, and I (the mathematician's daughter who grew up on a steady diet of statistical analysis and probabilities [my father's two favorite subjects]-RRB- hear myself say, «Digital Book World asked this guy to examine the impact of ebook sales on hardcover sales, making the study flawed in the first place.»
Boyd says insurers started using credit - based insurance scoring in the early 1990s when FICO conducted studies with insurers that showed a statistical correlation between a person's credit and his or her likelihood of filing an insurance claim.
One study shows an increased statistical incidence of the disease in cats that eat only or mostly canned cat food from «pop - top cans».
The authors discuss some possible reasons for this finding and acknowledge that we don't have enough information yet to know if this is a real effect vs. a statistical fluke of some kind, but it's not the first study to show similar results.
The functions validated in this study showed highly significant statistical correlations with the clinical status of the dogs.
I did a statistical analysis of shelters a few months ago which showed that a high live release rate does not correlate with a smaller community size — in fact, if anything, the study showed that a high live release rate is more likely in larger communities.
If it affects anything, it would be in the OFA - type legs - extended position, but even that has not been shown to have statistical significance in any controlled study.
The Winner's Circle — A new statistical study conducted by The Art Newspaper finds that a whopping 30 percent of major U.S. museum exhibitions of contemporary artists shown between 2007 and 2013 featured named from just five galleries: David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, Pace, and Marian Goodman.
More than a statistical fluke In earlier studies, scientists showed that there are statistical links between the IOD and extreme weather in Australia.
In some cases, reviewers and / or editors supportive of mainstream views totally block important papers from being published; McKitrick, McIntyre and Herman had to completely rewrite their recent paper — showing that high tropical tropospheric temperature trends for the last three decades produced by climate models are inconsistent with observations — as a study of applying statistical methods developed in econometrics, and submit it to a journal with a more open - minded editor, in order to get it published at all.
So the main issue for me is that all «serious» studies show only «statistical trends» having some effects on some measurable quantities, (slight increase of average temperature, slight increase of sea level, slight decrease of northern, but not southern, sea ice,..)
Consequently studies based on pure correlation, like all of the statistical time series stuff that shows lower 2XCO2 sensitivity, higher solar responses is deprecated because the causal mechanism isn't explicit.
Some post-TAR studies indicate greater multi-centennial NH variability than was shown in the TAR, due to the particular proxies used and the specific statistical methods of processing and / or scaling them to represent past temperatures.
Using statistical analysis, the new study shows that even in ocean basins where reduced wind shear plays a role, warming sea - surface temperature is the dominant driver.
«Show your working» suggests providing insight into the statistical processes involved and is no substitute for providing access to the original data, for instance photographs of the tree - rings measured in just 12 trees from Siberia that provided the foundation for Jones» study.
Statistical analyses by Maddison (2001), Lise and Tol (2002) and Hamilton (2003a), and a simulation study (Hamilton et al., 2003), have shown the relevance of climatic factors as determinants of tourist demand, next to economic and political conditions, fashion, media attention, and environmental quality.
Recently the hybrid statistical - dynamical method has been developed to merge the forecast from both methods and has shown promise in improving drought prediction in certain case studies.
showed that, had McIntyre and McKitrick subjected their alternative reconstruction to the statistical validation tests stressed in MBH98 and MBH99 (and nearly all related studies), it would have failed these critical tests.
Furthermore, a detailed reanalysis showed flaws in the statistical approach of Svensmark et al. (2012)(hereafter SES12) and these flaws were also present in the Svensmark et al. (2009) study.
That's like saying «There are thirty - five tobacco studies; thirty - three of them show a dramatic statistical significance between smoking and cancer; two of them are equivocal.
A May 2017 study published in Nature Geoscience used global satellite data and a statistical technique to show that as much as 30 percent of the variability in climate and weather patterns can be attributed to plants.
Once the statistical errors in the Nature study were corrected, the Antarctic interior was shown to be cooling still, as had long been believed.
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