The new administration recently appointed a statistical sampling expert to be the next census director.
In 1930, researchers in Cologne, Germany, made a statistical correlation between cancer and smoking.
At Marden High School , students are focusing on news with a statistical slant.
Which is why trying to get a statistical picture of China is so hard.
Establishing a statistical link between low wages and corruption does not show which way causation flows.
The five main dimensions of human personality were discovered using a statistical technique called factor analysis.
Last but not least, the friendly hotel staff you mention must be a statistical oddity.
Firstly, we have a rough idea of what is the value of a statistical life.
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The projection for these races will be based on a statistical model that uses the actual votes.
U.S. Global Investors does a statistical analysis to determine what it considers the normal volatility of gold.
Bullish sentiment is more than two standard deviations from its historical mean, making it a statistical outlier.
From a statistical perspective, Snow wants to add value to the front office without clouding the decision-making process.
With their record of finding elephant fields, "it becomes almost a statistical play at some point, " Musselman says.
With their record of finding huge fields, "it becomes almost a statistical play at some point, " Musselman says.
Colleague David Mohre mentions that GCRs in particular has lead to a statistical increase in cataracts in astronauts.
But those people were already likely to rob stores even in good times, making it a statistical wash.
The budget presented a statistical snapshot of the gruesome shape in which Britain now finds itself (see article).
What does a statistical analyst do between the presidential election and the midterms?
L.A. But what counts as significant in a statistical analysis is a function of where you set the bar.
The one who's in the basement, not wearing pants, working on a statistical analysis for his fantasy baseball draft.
It's not a statistical thing, as much as it is an eye-test thing.
In other words, nearly three-quarters of these new jobs are a statistical invention.
Any analysis of labour-market trends soon gets bogged down in a statistical swamp.
Two polls at the start of the Democrats' jamboree showed the main candidates to be in a statistical tie.
Models are merely a statistical tool, no different than surgical instruments for a surgeon, or wrenches to a mechanic.
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Argentina has created a statistical labyrinth that might have been dreamed up by Jorge Luis Borges, the country's greatest writer.
In the early 1950s, another doctoral student named Harry Markowitz posited a statistical approach to investment selection called Modern Portfolio Theory.
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For instance, a small part of the fall in manufacturing jobs is a statistical illusion caused by manufacturers contracting out services.
It has been impossible to establish a statistical match between the use of ASBOs and falls in anti-social behaviour, he says.
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The first is the administration's use of "disparate impact, " a statistical divining rod deployed in a widening array of federal antidiscrimination lawsuits.
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