The methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this report are entirely
the work of statisticians and economists at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis and have not been endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of the developers of NEMS.
The methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this Backgrounder are entirely
the work of statisticians and economists in the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) at The Heritage Foundation, and have not been endorsed by, and do not necessarily reflect the views of, the developers of NEMS.
In the socioeconomic policy analysis unit, «our work is
the work of statisticians and economists,» Menchini says.
Not exact matches
The national income accounts initially were designed by
statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists
work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead
of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.
Well - briefed pieces appeared in both the Independent and the Daily Mail, though the interesting nuggets about Rodgers feeling isolated and bypassed by those he was
working with are rather lost behind the blasts
of the trumpets against the monstrous regiment
of statisticians.
I think it's lack
of training and the fact that the really good
statisticians are
working with scientists on improving methodologies, and that stuff trickles down slowly.
The university asked a
statistician to check if any
of the papers Förster published between 2007 and 2014 — the years he
worked in Amsterdam — contained the same highly improbable statistical patterns found in the SPPS study.
As problems become bigger, especially in the case
of natural disasters, we have to
work more and more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and
statisticians.
«The whole point
of sport is to
work out who the best is,» says
statistician Ian McHale
of the University
of Salford, UK.
Statisticians reexamined the body
of work on heritability in general and declared the sample sizes too small to support the nature - nurture statistics.
The pioneering
work on «robust statistics,» or statistical methods that can tolerate corrupted data, was done by
statisticians, but both new papers come from groups
of computer scientists.
As problems become bigger, especially in the case
of natural disasters, we have to
work more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and
statisticians.
The high policy relevance
of demographic change gives
statisticians working in this area a unique opportunity for applied experimentation with user engagement, communication
of uncertainty, and public understanding
of statistics.
And from his time,
statisticians and ecologists have developed these models to such a level
of sophistication now, I had a ready tool, both in terms
of a ready camera that could take tiger pictures cheaply, and also these wonderful models, with whom Jim and I have been
working for the last 25 years or so.
«For
statisticians in particular, we're hoping this opens up a new field
of work that would focus on designing new statistics that measure predictivity.»
Working with Savage were Julie Peterson, instructor, food science and nutrition, University
of Minnesota, St. Paul; Michele Marini,
statistician, Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Penn State; Leann Birch, Distinguished Professor
of Human Development and professor
of nutritional sciences, and director
of the Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Penn State; and Peter Bordi Jr., director, Center for Food Innovation, and associate professor
of hospitality management, Penn State.
Kennett,
working with Norbert Marwan, climatologist and
statistician, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, looked at climate records for central Mexico gleaned from a stalagmite collected from Juxtlahuaca Cave in the state
of Guerrero.
Fun fact: Witten became a
statistician so she wouldn't have to «pick a single thing to do for the rest
of her life» since her
work dabbles in many different fields.
The series, published since 1980, addresses the community
of statisticians, as well as scientists in various disciplines who use statistical methodology in their
work.
You will therefore
work with diverse research teams including space physicists exploiting ground - based instruments and space missions to study the ionospheres and magnetospheres
of Earth and the other planets, and
statisticians developing statistical methodology to understand the behaviour
of extreme events in real - life environmental applications.
Unfortunately no good data on what percentage
of folks
working as
statisticians (with degrees) are competent in a clinical research setting — my guess / prior is 10 %
A group
of statisticians, mathematicians and biologists have formed a
Working Group at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis to address the questions arising from the problem
of analyzing complex evolutionary traits.
A wide variety
of quantitative scientists (computational biologists,
statisticians, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, and physicists) are
working to improve the quality
of these approaches and to create, refine, and retest the models to accurately reflect observations.
We then wanted to find the cleanest possible way to analyze the data, so we
worked with a couple
of statisticians to explore different analyses that might be appropriate and powerful enough to detect group differences and, in future, maybe even drug effects.
In the 1990s, William L. Sanders, a
statistician at the University
of Tennessee, pioneered the technique with student test scores — and managed to persuade the Hamilton County School Board to
work with him in taking a closer look at the results.
While educational
statisticians of all sorts have certainly engaged in statistical wizardry in one form or another, across many states for many years past, especially when it comes to
working VAM magic, the set
of statistical wizards in the land
of enchantment — New Mexico — are at it again (see prior posts about this state here, here, and here).
While a grants administrator in New York City, David learned the value
of working closely with university based
statisticians and researchers for grant and program development and evaluation design.
I asked my
statistician to scour the internet for what he thought was the most intelligent, insightful, educated theory
of how Amazon's sales ranking
works.
After completing a master's degree in biostatistics, and
working as a
statistician, Jennifer realized she was hiding behind numbers and formulas instead
of creating something wholly new.
Has the climate science community increased involvement
of statisticians in recent years, perhaps including them in the statistical
work or at least including them in peer review
of climate science papers prior to publication?
And it quotes
statistician Hans von Storch (who has been quite critical
of the earlier
work): «it does not weaken in any way the hypothesis that recent observed warming is a result mainly
of human activity».
This is a very generalized beginning to the disucssion and I welcome corrections from:
statisticians, physicists and mathematicians who
work in climate science as it specifically pertains to the
work they do using Bayes statistics, or related methods that are
of importance.
Deciding how to analyze data is what the scientist and
statistician spend a lot
of time
working on.
And adaptation to changing climate, particularly wider extremes (what the
statisticians call variances), is going to require serious amounts
of work being done.
If you've really stumbled upon a huge hole in how
statisticians analyze trends in time series, don't you think you should
work to inform them
of this fact?
And that includes statistical research, by the way — though I'm not a
statistician I've
worked closely with some
of the best.
A. 12, to which can be added the note that in their rejolinder, they said «We believe such conversations to be paradigmatic
of the great value
of collaboration between climate scientists and
statisticians and hope they can serve as a template for future
work between the two camps.
As with NEMS, the methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this report are entirely the
work of CDA
statisticians and economists, and have not been endorsed by, and do not necessarily reflect the view
of, the owners
of the IHS Global Insight model.
Over the week, Agency
statisticians are describing their
work and IEA methodologies, but many
of the course participants also are giving presentations on how their organisations and countries deal with universal and local energy data challenges.
And when it all goes t ** s up and a pair
of professional
statisticians eventually get to look at the
work it is torn to shreds.
A lot
of work is a partnership between engineers, climatologists, AND
statisticians.
Even though their
work has a very significant statistical component, based on their literature citations, there is no evidence that Dr. Mann or any
of the other authors in paleoclimatology studies have significant interactions with mainstream
statisticians.»
Most
of the criticism has come from the
work of two Canadian
statisticians, Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, who have uncovered a misuse
of data, a biased calibration procedure, and fundamental errors in the statistical methods.
I
work as a
statistician at a research hospital and get a good number
of publications (usually 3rd to 9th authorship).
And while Briggs»
work is respectable, I don't recognize the opinions
of a general
statistician who has no publication history in climate, particularly when the link you posted is all opinion and no statistics.
It was claimed to be «independent, impartial, expert»
work by a team
of «eminent
statisticians.»
I am no
statistician, but can someone explain how the three middle columns in Table 2.7
of Chapter 5 for the HadCrut4 data
work?
I think
statisticians working on «objective» or «reference» priors are probably mostly motivated by issues
of this sort.
Thanks to the
work of a Canadian
statistician, Stephen McIntyre, and others, this graph is now known to be deeply flawed.
This is despite the fact that their
work was «basically all statistics», as one member
of the panel,
statistician David Hand,
of Imperial College, London, put it.