This randomization feature allowed researchers to compare the newly-enrolled group with an equivalent group not selected knowing that there was no selection bias that might produce a spurious result.
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The Outer Hebrides Transport Group said removing road equivalent tariff (RET) from freight would lead to a 175% increase in travel costs from April.
Many fund companies, including Vanguard Group, offer online tax-equivalent yield calculators.
The opening of the new centre on Monday will see a group of local children swimming the equivalent length of the English Channel to raise money for charity.
As a group, the public lenders have capital equivalent to just 4.5% of total loans, and so cannot absorb big losses.
Craig Alexander, the chief economist for TD Financial Group, estimates all this will be the equivalent of about a 1% rise in mortgage rates for most homebuyers.
Mr. ERIC MOSKOWITZ (Director, The Options Group): Last year we were about equivalent to the 2000 technology-led boom of bonuses, and in 2006, and we're really going to hit all-time highs across the board in a number of categories and in a number of firms.
Carl Sheldon, chief executive of Taqa, said the billion-dollar deal, which is to be completed in 2013, would add 21, 000 barrels of oil equivalent a day to its output, establishing the Abu Dhabi group "as a leading operator in the UK North Sea".
Scottish primary school teachers should have the equivalent of a science Higher before they enter the profession, according to a group of experts.
Traders are also doing 7% of their volume in "dark pools, " the electronic equivalent of a back alley where buyers and sellers transact anonymously, according to Tabb Group, a Westborough, Mass. market researcher.
"Nobody wants to be seen as anti-equality and the gay rights lobby have been very effective in framing the argument as being one equivalent to ending slavery, " Austen Ivereigh, a spokesperson for the Catholic Voices pressure group, told CNN.
Bumi said that it received a request from the Bakrie Group to cancel their indirect 23.8% shareholding, in exchange for an equivalent value of PT Bumi Resources shares representing 10.3% of the total outstanding share capital.
The UK Food Group suggests that the production of meat causes an annual "calorie loss" around the world equivalent to the need of 3.5 billion people.
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Do you think this sort of -- this group of sort of liberal pundits gives the President a tougher time than sort of the same equivalent to Republicans, you know, the conservative pundits do to the Republicans?
Although it holds a 34% stake, other companies in the Mitsubishi group, such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Corp, the trading company, collectively hold an equivalent stake.
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