The projection for these races will be based on a statistical model that uses the actual votes.

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The Wall Street Journal asked Ben Alamar, the founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, to build a statistical model of the changes.

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Based on this correlation, the economists built a statistical model that provided estimates of GDP levels for regions and countries without reliable economic data based solely on the satellite images.

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Robust methodology: Active GRP is calculated by a statistical model that combines aggregated panel data and anonymous user data (either inferred or user-provided), and will work in conjunction with Active View to measure viewed impressions.

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Upstart asks students to create profiles with basic information such as what schools they attended, their area of study, grades, job experience and internships, and uses a statistical model to project how much they will likely earn over the next decade.

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At their presentation in Phoenix, summarizing research for a paper to be finished soon, they compared the world ranking of the top 200 players to a ranking of those same players' skill levels calculated using a statistical model they also devised, which simultaneously takes into account players' adjusted tournament scores and the difficulty of the courses.

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Retailers also continue to experience a higher average probability of default, based on the Sageworks probability of default model, a predictive statistical model for the credit analysis of small or privately held companies.

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MapReduce is not a computational (i.e, statistical) model.

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However, he has managed to develop a mathematical model that explains the distribution of the second digits, putting what might appear to be a statistical oddity on a more solid footing.

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