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           					The five main dimensions of human personality were discovered using a statistical technique called factor analysis. 
            					  		    					
           					 ECONOMIST: Animal behaviour 
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           					For most major league seasons when running a statistical technique called simple linear regression, the number of wins is statistically correlated with team payroll. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: Baseball's Most and Least Efficient Teams for the 2010 Season 
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           					The only way to show compensation still rising is to combine forward- and backward-looking measures of pay in any year, a misleading statistical technique. 
            					  		    					
           					 ECONOMIST: A debate over how much American bosses are paid 
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           					With these separate pieces of information, the researchers used a new statistical technique to seek out any associations between genes and how intelligence levels might have shifted over the years. 
            					  		    					
           					 WSJ: Intelligence Changes Linked to Genes 
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           					These two correlations do not by themselves prove that chronic stress damages the memory, but Dr Evans and Dr Schamberg then applied a statistical technique called hierarchical regression to the results. 
            					  		    					
           					 ECONOMIST: Neuroscience and social deprivation 
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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). 
            					  		    					
           					 ECONOMIST: Statistics 
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           					The researchers used a sophisticated statistical modeling technique to assess viral load and CD4 cell loss in more than 2, 800 patients with HIV who were not receiving treatment. 
            					  		    					
           					 BBC: Cell infected with HIV 
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           					Some service providers use a technique called statistical multiplexing , to get round this. 
            					  		    					
           					 BBC: Digital technology - pros and cons 
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           					In early 2010, Google Goggles came out, extracting text from an image taken by a user and converting it with the help of a technique called statistical machine translation. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: Borderless Conversations: Relevance, Not Translation, Is the Challenge 
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           					Republicans spent much of the 1997 appropriations season battling the administration over its plan to use statistical sampling, a technique that uses data from the traditional head count to estimate the number of those who did not respond to census takers. 
            					  		    					
           					 CNN: By Juliana Gruenwald, CQ Staff Writer