Sentences with phrase «statistical techniques like»

While several firms use statistical techniques like mean - variance optimization to determine portfolio weights, we do not.

Not exact matches

Computational biology operates with a variety of tools on different levels of complexity, starting with very strict and algorithmic approaches like molecular simulations and finishing with statistical and heuristic techniques.

It suggests the biomedical community has been chasing statistical significance, potentially giving dubious results the appearance of validity through techniques like p - hacking — or simply suppressing important results that don't look significant enough.

Well practically everybody just overweights the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they're taught in places like this, and doesn't mix in the hard - to - measure stuff that may be more important.

This is the same thing as testing many different statistical signal extraction techniques, picking the one you «like», and then finding reasons to justify the selection after the results are known.

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.

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