Sentences with phrase «statistical technique called»

For the new study, Brandt and his colleagues analyzed approximately 15,000 measurements from 18 prior studies of natural gas leaks from across the U.S. using a statistical technique called extreme value theory, which is useful for analyzing infrequent but highly consequential events.

And BTW, the strength of scientific consensus can be measured and calculated, by using a statistical technique called meta - analysis, or by doing a research review like the one John Cook and colleagues did.

What produced Lewandowsky's result is a statistical technique called structural - equation modelling (SEM).

A multivariate statistical technique called Multi-channel Singular Spectrum Analysis (MSSA) was used to identify patterns of variability shared by all indices analyzed, which characterizes the «stadium wave.»

Using a statistical technique called regression discontinuity (to be described in more detail below), they found that higher effectiveness ratings lead teachers to have more positive perceptions of their jobs.

Both the SGP model and value - added models use a statistical technique called regression to analyze the test score histories of students.

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.

For the new study, Brandt and his colleagues analyzed approximately 15,000 measurements from 18 prior studies of natural gas leaks from across the U.S. using a statistical technique called extreme value theory, which is useful for analyzing infrequent but highly consequential events.

«In order to do this, I collected data from friend dyads and used a statistical technique called the «actor partner interdependence model,» or APIM.

Yet by connecting a single - pixel camera to a patterned light source, a team of physicists in China has made detailed x-ray images using a statistical technique called ghost imaging, first pioneered 20 years ago in infrared and visible light.

Chitwood used a statistical technique called elliptical Fourier descriptor analysis to quantify the entire outlines of the violins for comparison.

The researchers then used a statistical technique called isotemporal analysis to estimate the potential impact on health of reallocating time from sitting to standing or stepping.

To tease out whether these correlations were due to a small sample size or chance, the researchers used a more sophisticated statistical technique called principal components analysis, testing the actual results against 10,000 randomly generated simulations.

One of the standard methods for assessing personality is to analyze people's answers to a 100 - item questionnaire with a statistical technique called factor analysis.

In order to separate student characteristics from aspects of segregated public schools, Kainz used a statistical technique called «propensity score matching,» which allows for comparison of reading growth in segregated and non-segregated schools, while also accounting for numerous differences in the students» backgrounds.

Not exact matches

«The so - called «trick» was nothing more than a statistical method used to bring two or more different kinds of data sets together in a legitimate fashion by a technique that has been reviewed by a broad array of peers in the field,» the panel said.

They then used a statistical method called the maximum likelihood technique, which helped them work out what processing of inputs at a cell's receptors would provide the best estimate of the chemical concentration.

Using statistical techniques to assess the distribution of populations of a rangeomorph called Fractofusus, Dr Mitchell and co-authors observed that larger «grandparent» rangeomorphs were randomly distributed in their environment, and were surrounded by distinct patterns of smaller «parents» and «children.»

The statistical technique underlying the graph, called canonical correlation, has the advantage for the present purpose of collapsing the seven separate ECCI scores into a single number for each district, and likewise combining into a single score the separate measures of racial imbalance for whites and for blacks.

They use bank balance sheet data and a technique called «statistical clustering» to classify banks into broad categories that share similar summary features of their balance sheets.

These guys used Mann's math called RegEM (which was just made - up by Mann and is not really a proven statistical technique — its a cherrypicking weighting method depending on how you set it up — so we will have to see how they really did it — complex enough that only a few people will be able to figure it).

How is it that the conclusions of climate scientists can be called into question as a result of supposedly dubious statistical techniques, but the long history of nonsense from the skeptics, (such as the Robinson et al paper that accompanied the politically motivated Oregon Petition, the corporate funded propaganda campaigns of the Global Climate Coalition, and the recent urban myth that Martian «global warming» disproves a human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of climate?

The so - called «trick» was nothing more than a statistical method used to bring two or more different kinds of data sets together in a legitimate fashion by a technique that has been reviewed by a broad array of peers in the field.

The researchers used statistical models and techniques from a field of mathematics called information theory to determine factors contributing to hurricane strength from 1970 to 2004 in six of the world's ocean basins, including the North Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

He and co-authors Ray Bradley and Malcolm Hughes used novel statistical techniques to extract more information than ever before from so - called «proxy records» — records of tree rings, ice cores, corals, and lake sediments — as well as «a smattering of historical [ie., written] records.»