Sentences with phrase «statistical validity of their data»

Thomson said his order prevents PED from enforcing its evaluation system until «a trial on the merits where the court can be assured of the statistical validity of the data collection and reporting that feeds into the system.»

Using basic inferential statistics such as the methods outlined here, legal professionals will be able to interrogate the statistical validity of their data and evaluate the significance of various quantitative legal metrics.

A7: We are collaborating closely with Bob Morse (U.S. News» director of data research) in order to ensure the statistical validity of our data and assign weights that make sense based on continuing discussions with large numbers of general counsel, lawyers, and law firm representatives.

Not exact matches

Sufficient information should be supplied to allow readers to judge whether any assumptions necessary for the validity of statistical approaches (e.g., data are normally distributed, survival data are consistent with proportional hazards in a Cox regression model) have been verified.

Unlike the original reconstruction of Mann et al (1998), the reconstruction that McIntyre and McKitrick produced using the censored data set fails standard statistical tests for validity, and, in the words of the NCAR group, is «shown to be without statistical and climatological merit».

And now tell me, please, what the «irrefutable data», the empirical, statistical evidence supposedly was for the scientific validity of the assertion of a «global warming standstill» or a «global warming stop» in recent years.

The authorsí refusal to answer questions regarding the statistical validity of the model or to provide the model statistics and data add to the doubts about the theory.

Statistical methods included (a) exploratory and confirmatory latent variable analyses of item data, (b) evaluation of the internal consistency of the latent dimensions, (c) evaluation of latent structure concordance between school year samples, and (d) preliminary evaluation of criterion - related validity.