Mr Hebbert illustrates, however, that there is no necessary trade-off between analysis and anecdote.
To top it off, analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute shows that Illinois has the 14th highest tax burden per capita in the entire nation.
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Other samples would be shipped for off-site analysis under strict protocols to protect the samples and ensure an unbroken chain of custody.
There is no guarantee against unscrupulous inspectors clandestinely collecting samples and conducting off-site analysis to glean information on the chemical content of American products and the processes involved in making them.
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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.
For this off-site analysis, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) - the implementing agency of the Chemical Weapons Convention - has established an international network of highly competent so-called "designated laboratories" that routinely undergo proficiency testing to ensure that their standard of analysis is up to the needs.
HP, which has a more integrated hardware business and is trying to move into analysis software is off 1.2%.
The debate is important, and calm analysis may conclude that off-shore drilling generates more harm than benefit.
EMC, which sold some of its low-value storage to Dell and has been buying value-added analysis companies, is off 0.17%.
Though bucking bull breeders can trace a few lines back to the 1930s, the targeted breeding of bucking bulls did not take off until the 1990s, when DNA analysis became the industry standard for determining parentage.
Separately, the player was suspended from bowling in January after independent analysis of his action revealed his off-break and faster deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees level of tolerance permitted under regulations.
This year, Cairn should complete analysis of data from other exploration blocks off the west coast of Greenland, and will then seek exploration investment partners.
In the next generation of DNA sequencing, routine DNA analysis in the clinical setting is not far off.
"When GM feels the pain, the industry will back off incentives, " says Glenn Reynolds of the credit analysis firm CreditSights.
The basic analysis seems to be that Nokia really took its eye off the ball.
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William, my point was that a politician comes off as awkward and at times inelegant in throwing out numbers without analysis and conclusions.
It really boils down to whether you are trading purely off technicals, or if you have enough confidence in your fundamental analysis to average down into positions.
Supposing that actual and projected public spending justified higher taxation, Mr Parry's analysis strongly suggests that the country would have been better off paying for it through income taxes than through a punitive petrol tax.
He gave a virtuoso performance, rhyming off dozens of statistics in a clear, point-by-point analysis of the positives and negatives facing the world economy without once referring to notes or using PowerPoint slides.
Instead of hustlers telling credulous investors what returns they could expect, investors told hustlers what returns they had to deliver, based on their own analysis of information made freely available by new media outlets working off the power of the telegraph.
Scoreboards rattled off statistics, and professional poker player Phil Gordon, who often does TV analysis, gave a running commentary.
CreditSights, a debt and equity analysis firm, says overcapacity in the printing industry keeps 36% off the presses and printing plans idle.
However, he said analysis of the recently published figures showed the proportion of people getting off drugs after treatment had fallen from 3.5% three years ago to less than 3% now.
According to the Bank of England's analysis, if every single one of those countries went bust and wrote off 50% of their sovereign debt, banking debt and non-bank private-sector debt, that would wipe out around half the capital in the UK banking system - which is another way of saying that, in theory, the majority of our banks would limp on.
Still, Sin City's economy will not take off until the overall U.S. recovery is fully underway, according to the analysis.
Yet Mr Dunlap, a man who has the answer to every question off pat before it is even asked, is more prone to blustering assertions than to analysis.
The mystery deepened when analysis of bones from early settlements revealed smaller, weaker and sicker humans apparently worse off than their hunter gatherer neighbours.
Nissen was able to do his Avandia analysis because Glaxo, in order to get then New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer off its back, agreed three years ago to put drug-trial results up for public viewing.
Some companies use off-the-shelf statistics or highly generalized data on city rankings as a shortcut for the complex analysis needed to accurately prioritize and cluster locations.
The great Sri Lankan off-spinner has done everything to prove his action is legit, from submitting himself to detailed biomechanical analysis to bowling in an arm brace on live television.
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