For those of you unfamiliar with Nate, he is a statistician who tracks the various voter polls.
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Have you heard of the joke about a statistician who was drowned in a lake with an average depth of only 12 inches?
"If you do enough significance tests, you're going to see some things that are statistically significant, " said Richard Peto, a statistician at Oxford University.
Micah Hartman, a statistician who works for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, attributed this to more people substituting cheaper generic drugs for pricier patented ones.
"Everybody has been talking about this and doing it, " says Mr. Robin, a statistician who lives in the town of Beit Shemesh, which is populated by many descendants of Americans.
Tom Fleming, a statistician from the University of Washington, criticized the Adapt investigators for allowing awareness of efficacy data that should have only been available on a separate safety committee.
Sander Greenland, a statistician at the University of California, Los Angeles, says the data are "ambiguous" and can be spun either to argue for or against a risk of cancer death.
One intriguing explanation comes from Go Myong-hyun, a statistician at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, which has just held a conference in Seoul on the viability of the North Korean regime.
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Mr. Kupstov sent the city testimonials from colleagues at universities in the New York City area and London and emailed with a statistician at the Department of Education, according to copies reviewed by the Journal.
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As much of a gut-punch as it might have been for a statistician to miss such a big story right in his own backyard Ezekowitz says he has "no sense whatsoever" of regret about whiffing on his school's big win.
Thomas Fleming, a statistician at the University of Washington, has argued in the New England Journal that though this is true, analyzing the data in that way doesn't quell all concerns that Vytorin might somehow increase the rate of cancer death.
Prof Kevin McConway, a statistician at the Open University said, based on the findings, if Newcastle were to halve its current particulate air pollution level it would lead to two or three fewer low weight babies out of the total 3, 500 or so born in the city each year.
Dr. Vose, AstraZeneca's oncology chief, first heard the results when a company statistician called him at a sales meeting in Los Angeles.
"When you've tried everything, try Henry George, " says Joshua Vincent, a historian and statistician who runs a Georgist group called the Center for the Study of Economics in the house where Henry George was born in Philadelphia.
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In a "Perspective, " Stephen Lagakos, a Harvard statistician, examines the statistical conclusions made by the paper at length.
Denny Way, a senior statistician at Pearson, said the method allowed the city to compare its own students with those considered gifted across the country.
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David Coon, a survey statistician at Census, said the bureau wants to keep its security plans closely guarded for fear of giving away too much information to potential hackers.
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His approach relies on a statistical technique invented in 1943 by a British statistician, Ronald Fisher, and now widely used by geologists and ecologists to estimate the diversity of populations (of, say, fossils or beetles).
Helen Parise, a Boston University statistician, argued at a session at the ACC meeting that because of the way that study was designed, it managed to show both that the valve was non-inferior and statistically inferior.
However, the upward trend is unlikely to continue as the holiday effect fades and warmer weather starts to bolster food supplies, said Yu Qiumei, a senior statistician with the bureau, suggesting CPI growth will ease this month.
If that step proves too technically difficult for the person who made the discovery, a mathematician or statistician can be added as a collaborator.
Thomas Fleming, a University of Washington statistician who was a prominent skeptic about the early approval of Iressa, spent much of he meaning working out exactly how the screening trials were designed.
In 2005, it ordered the demotion of a Justice Department statistician who merely put out some data that the White House found inconvenient.
The paper, which Nissen and Topol wrote with Kathy Wolski, a Cleveland Clinic statistician, combines results from five clinical trials of Pargluva in which the drug was compared to either placebo or other diabetes drugs.
Nate Silver is a badass, as much as any statistician can really be a badass.
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As for Harvard's shot of advancing Saturday against Arizona, this system that Ezekowitz uses for the rest of the tournament gives the Crimson a 28% chance which, to any statistician, foretells a loss.
The fact that we have four math majors and a full-time statistician means that we take that number crunching very seriously.
It came from Thomas Fleming, a University of Washington statistician who is one of the world's experts on understanding clinical trials.
Boies took special delight in his statistician, a Yale professor resembling Professor Irwin Corey, who pointed out that the undervote in counties that used punch cards was five times as high as that in counties that used other methods.
"It is possible that the Toumai fossil is more recent than previously thought, " said Nick Patterson, a senior research scientist and statistician at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and lead author on the Nature paper.
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