One statistical factor is the number of new people the typical sick person infects, known as "R".

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The five main dimensions of human personality were discovered using a statistical technique called factor analysis.

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Once they acknowledged this factor in their statistical models, it became evident that those films, by themselves, did not do any better at all.

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Third, factor in all the known statistical variations of the material itself.

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