Sentences with phrase «statistically significant extent»

Not exact matches

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Your qualifications and the extent of your research is irrelevant unless you can quote statistically significant examples of babies who died in the hospital that would have survived at home.

Treated separately, the two sets of data do not show a statistically significant decrease in the extent of Antarctic ice, although they do show that the Arctic cap is shrinking.

Most of these associations were highly statistically significant, but a few were marginally significant even after adjusting for a variety of factors including a nursing home's extent of hospice use.

However, cells pre-treated with 20 µM SP600125 enhanced radiation - induced cell death to a limited extent, although the values are statistically significant (P < 0.01) compared to 2.0 Gy radiation alone group (Figs. 2 and 3).

In Cohen et al. 2009, we showed a statistically significant link between increasing snow cover extent in Siberia and colder Northern Hemisphere temperatures, so there is more to my article than thinking out loud.

I did find a statistically significant relationship between the winter NAO / AO and NH winter snow cover extent, which was great but still had the chicken and egg problem.

Snow indices that consider only monthly mean snow cover extent over Eurasia have a moderate, but statistically significant correlation with the DJF AO.

But if one uses data for all months, the increase in Antarctic sea ice extent since 1979 is statistically significant.

The two post AR4 references are clearly delineated as such in the article and are offered to support the point that the putative source for the AR4's assertion of statistically insignificant growth in Antarctic sea ice extent, in his subsequent work which showed statistically significant growth, offered no indication that this was break from what he had done in the past.

So just what did the IPCC AR4 authors cite in support of their «assessment» that Antarctic sea ice extent was not increasing in a statistically significant manner?

and 2) Comiso published a subsequent paper (along with Fumihiko Nishio) in 2008 that added only one additional year to the IPCC analysis (i.e. through 2006 instead of 2005), and once again found a statistically significant increase in Antarctic sea ice extent, with a value very similar to the value reported in the old TAR, that is:

These studies have unanimously shown statistically significant decreases in sea ice concentration, extent and ice season duration in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas, contrasted with increases in sea ice concentration, extent and ice season duration in the Ross Sea (Comiso and Nishio 2008; Stammerjohn et al. 2008; Cavaleri and Parkinson 2008; Turner et al. 2009; Liu et al. 2004; Parkinson 2002).

There are more pronounced contrasts since 1979: autumn and, to a lesser extent, summer have predominantly negative trends in East Antarctica, while spring has large, statistically significant warming trends in West Antarctica.

«Based on a new analysis of passive microwave satellite data, we demonstrate that the annual mean extent of Antarctic sea ice has increased at a statistically significant rate of 0.97 % dec - 1 since the late 1970s.»

Examination of records of fast ice thickness (1936 — 2000) and ice extent (1900 — 2000) in the Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi Seas provide evidence that long - term ice thickness and extent trends are small and generally not statistically significant, while trends for shorter records are not indicative of the long - term tendencies due to large - amplitude low - frequency variability.

The time series of total Arctic ice extent shows a statistically significant positive trend and correlates negatively with recent high - latitude temperature fluctuations.

However, neither of our multivariate analyses showed a statistically significant correlation between likelihood of success and the moving party's total number of case appearances, size of law firm, or size of law office.114 Thus, to the extent that these measures of experience or firm size are proxies for lawyer skill, our multivariate analyses cast doubt on the theory that readability is merely a proxy for lawyer skill.115