Sentences with phrase «use of their weight bias»

They could be made to go really fast, unfortunately few journalists were shown how the cars should be driven to make use of their weight bias, and the reviews were rarely more than lukewarm.

Not exact matches

They use False Discovery Rate (FDR) to control for data snooping bias, such that 90 % of the equally weighted best rules in FDR - corrected portfolios significantly outperform the benchmark.

The ratings used a weighting system that tied 40 percent of a rating to national championship seasons (sounds a bit biased toward, Bama, huh?)

Although we could not find estimates of fan use in the US population, we examined the potential selection bias by evaluating characteristics associated with SIDS risks in study participants and nonparticipants in a previously published article.16 Using California birth certificate data, we compared the ORs for maternal age, maternal education, parity, birth weight, infant sex, and late initiation of prenatal care (> 5 months» gestation).

Both of these biases can be reduced by examining people at the time of an incident diagnosis and using their pre-diagnosis weight.

The Schmittner et al. analysis marks the insensitive end of the spectrum of climate sensitivity estimates based on LGM data, in large measure because it used a data set and a weighting that may well be biased toward insufficient cooling.

This may favourably influence their ability to resist hunger and hence bias subjective measures of appetite.82 Furthermore, the effects of weight - loss upon subjective appetite measures are most frequently detected in pre-meal and post-absorptive states, indeed, the use of visual analogue scales have only been validated for this purpose.85

Mechanical grip is aided by a rear - biased weight distribution (54 percent of the F12's weight is on the rear axle), a five - link rear suspension (the 599 used control arms), and enormous Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires (315 / 35s at the rear, 255 / 35s in front, all on twenty - inch wheels).

What one doesn't notice at relatively low speeds are the E-tron's 70 percent rear - biased torque split, its 42/58 percent front / rear weight distribution, the torque vectoring that combats excessive understeer and oversteer, or the qualities of the suspension, which uses control arms in the front and rear.

Of course, mechanical grip is aided by a rear - biased weight distribution (54 % of the F12's weight is on the rear axle), a five - link rear axle (the 599 used wishbones) and enormous Michelin Pilot Supersport tires (315 / 35s at the rear, 255 / 35s at front, all on twenty - inch wheelsOf course, mechanical grip is aided by a rear - biased weight distribution (54 % of the F12's weight is on the rear axle), a five - link rear axle (the 599 used wishbones) and enormous Michelin Pilot Supersport tires (315 / 35s at the rear, 255 / 35s at front, all on twenty - inch wheelsof the F12's weight is on the rear axle), a five - link rear axle (the 599 used wishbones) and enormous Michelin Pilot Supersport tires (315 / 35s at the rear, 255 / 35s at front, all on twenty - inch wheels.)

The Bora's four - wheel independent suspension — a first for the Modenese brand — used conventional springs and dampers rather than Citroen's cushy hydropneumatic system, and its rear - biased weight distribution rendered power steering unnecessary — at least for rich bodybuilders who lived in parts of the world where parallel parking wasn't a factor.

Having this weight in the back naturally uses all of the tires more efficiently during braking, instead of overloading the front tires which is what tends to happen in a front biased car.

The system is a rear - biased version of Audi's quattro system that provides balanced handling, while the A6's construction uses a combination of aluminum panels and high - strength steel to save weight and improve the A6's nimble, responsive feel.

And a risk analysis based on a symmetrical view of IPCC overconfidence bias will end up risk - weighting toward the more catastrophic side and indicating a more strictly regulatory (how I wish I could use the correct word, «conservative», here) policy.

The weighting scheme used to rate stations for the initial selection in the GSN clearly indicates the biases climatologists have in favor of stations that have been in operation for a long time, that are rural, are agricultural research sites, and are distributed throughout the world with increasing density the farther they are away from the tropics.

The answer is simple, the temperature plot used by McKittrick is merely an unweighted average of all of the station data, whereas climatologists use an area weighted average in order to avoid the bias that would otherwise be caused by the fact that there are many more stations in the industrialised north than elsewhere.

The «bias» is subtracted from the second series and a weighted average of the two series is made according to their weights (the distance from the gridcell center), using whatever values are available.

Using series of tree measures where the shorter, steeply sloping indices of the faster growing trees are added, by count - weighted means, to the longer, shallowly sloping indices of the slower growing trees and the resulting curve is «adjusted» by progressively removing slower growing trees in recent centuries leads to a chronology whose bias is difficult to describe.

«We use the siting classification system developed by Michel Leroy for Meteofrance in 1999 and improved in 2010 which quantifies the effect of heat sinks and sources within the thermometer viewshed by calculation of the area - weighted and distance - weighted impact of biasing elements to calculate both raw and gridded 30 year for each surveyed station, using temperature data from USHCNv2.

Even for HadCRUT4v2, used in [Lewis and Curry], the increase in GMST over the period concerned actually exceeds the area - weighted average of increases for ten separate latitude zones, so underweighting of high - latitude zones does not seem to cause a downwards bias.

Although we can not rule out the possibility that exclusion of mothers without complete information might have biased our findings for reported alcohol use, there was minimal change to the models when differential dropout was accounted for using inverse probability weighting.

Of these, respectively 80 %, 71 % and 69 % (13,503, 11,995 and 11,570 families) participated at both exposure and outcome in the three analysis periods; to compensate for possible participation bias, weights based on the characteristics of non-responders are provided with the data for each survey [18], and we used these in our analyseOf these, respectively 80 %, 71 % and 69 % (13,503, 11,995 and 11,570 families) participated at both exposure and outcome in the three analysis periods; to compensate for possible participation bias, weights based on the characteristics of non-responders are provided with the data for each survey [18], and we used these in our analyseof non-responders are provided with the data for each survey [18], and we used these in our analyses.