Sentences with phrase «statisticians know»

It wasn't true then, it isn't true now, and serious statisticians know better, and actually follow ASA Ethical Guidelines, which say:

But Bart, statisticians know statistics.

Every statistician knows that with enough variables (in this case, enough stars exploding in different ways for millions of years), many untestable explanations can be proposed.

Not exact matches

It will not help a agriculture major improve yield or a statistician to know what to order for his retail company based on previous trends.

Given that nobody knows what running a regression analysis actually involves, it shouldn't be too difficult for the world's statisticians to convince the media that it is an exhausting, physically taxing process that involves literally running.

Jinx Statisticians and fatalists know that everybody has to lose some time — but why does it happen so often for a team the week after it's touted on the cover of SI?

To find out what milestone the LFC No. 20 could reach, plus more need - to - know pre-match facts and figures, courtesy of club statistician Ged Rea, read on...

Because I am not a statistician and I know better than to bloviate on subjects I don't have a good grasp on.

He was a statistician by trade and you know how you can use statistics to divert and obfuscate and cloud the issue.

It was developed by Prof Cang Hui, a bio-mathematician from Stellenbosch University, in collaboration with two researchers from the United States of America, Prof Gordon A Fox, a statistician from the University of South Florida, and Prof Jessica Gurevitch, a well - known ecologist from Stony Brook University.

Paleontologists know of 527 types of dinosaurs, yet this tally may represent less than one - third of the total diversity, according to Swarthmore statistician Steve Wang and University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Peter Dodson.

Perhaps the most unexpected and inexplicable defect of all in a book by a statistician is The Skeptical Environmentalists almost pervasive inattention to the ranges of estimates that exist for quantities of interest even inattention to the standard scientific practice of expressing quantities to a number of significant digits roughly commensurate with the precision to which the quantities are known.

SN: People say to me all the time: «If you need a statistician to know whether it matters, then it doesn't matter.»

My theory is that the poll results, and also the public's appreciation of science's nonmonetizable benefits, are related effects: Both are the result of the public's intuitive understanding of something well known to statisticians as heavy - tailed distributions.

Although WIRES Comp Stat itself is completely unrelated to climate studies, the original trio of editors — Wegman, Said and Rice University statistician David Scott — had collaborated earlier on the highly controversial congressional report on paleoclimatology known as the Wegman Report.

But the researchers got the dating company to allow them to publish their survey analysis no matter what it showed, and the group hired an outside statistician to validate the work.

But because NAEP didn't start providing state - specific data until the early 90s, we depend on main NAEP to know whether states and cities are doing any better — any better than before, any better in comparison with one another, and any better in relation to Singapore or Germany (once the statisticians work their magic and interconnect NAEP results with PISA or TIMSS).

You are both good enough statisticians to know that averages across multiple cases (which I reported) are more informative than case - by - case comparisons (which you rely upon), each of which is noisy and therefore more likely to show no statistically significant difference.

I realize that Ravitch is no statistician but even she should know that 56 percent is not 75 percent and 44 percent is not 25 percent.

The DfE has some good statisticians who know what these figures mean, but some low life on the PR side seems to think they can completely misinterpret data.»

«With the emphasis on [the No Child Left Behind Act], we've seen a real expansion of the information on students that's being released to the public,» said Marilyn M. Seastrom, the chief statistician and director of the statistical - standards program at the department's National Center for Education Statistics.

Statisticians began the effort last year by ranking all the teachers using a statistical method known as value - added modeling, which calculates how much each teacher has helped students learn based on changes in test scores from year to year.

First, I will start by saying that the title of this article is misleading in that what this «little - known» statistician contributed to the field of education was hardly «little» in terms of its size and impact.

Hence, to assert that what this «little known» statistician contributed to education was trivial or inconsequential is entirely false.

Over the weekend, though, The New York Times released a similar piece about Sanders's passing, titled «The Little - Known Statistician Who Taught Us to Measure Teachers.»

Strauss writes: «You can be certain that members of the American Statistical Association, the largest organization in the United States representing statisticians and related professionals, know a thing or two about data and measurement.

If 10 % of the parents at the school say «No» to the standardized test, how do the statisticians adjust or correct for those missing data?

Married for 35 years with no children, and nearing the age of 60, she has just been informed by her faithful husband — at least as far as she knows — that he wants, not a divorce, but her consent to an affair he's determined to have with a 28 - year - old statistician.

Fortunately, at EssaySupply.com, we have a great staff of statisticians — Ph.D.'s who know exactly what statistical formulae to use in the analysis of your data, and how to best report your findings.

I don't know what the Fed's statisticians are doing here, but I am going to look into it, because it is troubling to wonder if your data series is sound or not.

«I think she just knew I needed that companionship,» recalled Wilson, now a statistician for a clinical research organization.

That which is applied to economics is... but there are those of us who are statisticians, pure and applied mathematicians, and yes, practicioners of the physical sciences, and we not only know the math, we know how to apply it to physical sciences better than econometricians.

# 57, RE small numbers, I'm no climate scientist, but I do know statisticians have methods, such as Chi - square and log - linear analysis (based on odds ratios), that are quite successful on data sets with small numbers of observations.

But as an statistician worth his salt knows, 5 is not a valid sampling size.

Where statistics is involved (in much science it seems), the institution frequently audits, via independent analysis by house statisticians who do not know what the data represents.

Statistics is most certainly not «wholly subjective» and no, two statisticians will not give you different answers to the same question!

I wrote: «Yes, and the reason is that «meteorologists and geologists» know much, much more about the mechanisms of the atmosphere and its variations over time than the collection of substandard computer modellers and incompetent statisticians who call themselves «climatologists».»

He can not admit he was wrong (even if the thinks he was) and if he fully discloses his methods he knows there will be even more criticism because, as I pointed out above, there will always be statisticians who disagree with his methods.

No, I have a conclusion — not an opinion — based on the studies of professional statisticians published for your benefit in peer - reviewed literature.

Then do you think the G8â $ ™ s leading scientific institutions â $ «you know the Royal Society and the like - donâ $ ™ t have access to quality statisticians or similar resources?

Thanks to the work of a Canadian statistician, Stephen McIntyre, and others, this graph is now known to be deeply flawed.

No, he said, and that was why he had taken care to anonymize the data and send them to a statistician, who had confirmed the obvious: since the same technique, applied to the same data, could produce precisely opposite results depending upon a careful choice of the endpoints for the multiple trend - lines that the IPCC's bureaucrats had superimposed on the perfectly correct graph of 150 years of temperature changes that the scientists had submitted, the technique must be defective and any results obtained by its use must be meaningless.

Statisticians, don't know squat about medicine, but they can be useful geeks.

Since they «knew» the Antarctic had to be warming, Steig et al. with guess statistician Micheal E. Mann «found» what they were looking for.

Steve won't go so far as to call it deliberate deception, but it seems obvious from the hoops Mann jumps through and the bizarre constructions he makes, that he is no longer just a naive statistician making innocent mistakes.

Our chief statistician consulted with his lifetime friend, whom you may know as RomanM (of climate audit fame) 3.

I suppose you could disagree with that statement, perhaps you and I can get a grant and study whether that statement is true of false and then submit our conclusion to a climate journal and get peer - reviewed so we could know if in fact climatologists consult with statisticians or not.

I'm sure there are a few more folks that are «professional statisticians»; I know a number of the scientists have degrees in mathematics, but aren't professional statisticians.

So the Wassup gang seems capable of pHraud as well as anyone — but what do I know as a statistician & engineer, eh?

Some people may know of the great statistician, now deceased, named John Tukey.