But he sees the biggest inefficiencies in an area the team can't control: "Referees, " he says, noting that the varying styles--some refs are less likely than others to call three second violations, for example--throws some statistical analysis off track.

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For example, an analysis between large-cap U.S. stocks and mid-cap U.S. stocks shows the rolling 3-year correlation is always very high.

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After seven pages of analysis by counter-example and refinement, he defines it as an enthusiastic desire, which infuses the body, for sexual activity and its pleasures for their own sake.

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In an analysis of cases of all but the sex-specific cancers like prostate and ovarian cancers, for example, men with the disease were more likely than women to die in each of the past 10 years, researchers found.

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