D. in political science at Stanford University in the mid-1960s, Nie became frustrated with the computer-based statistical analysis tools available at the time.
Foley is a big believer in statistical analysis, especially the type of in-depth, multivariable analysis that academics are beginning to crank out using the detailed ShotLink data that the Tour records for every shot in every tournament.
They grasped mathematical concepts quickly and understood English well, she said, but needed more help learning how to apply the concepts to real-world statistical gathering and analysis.
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.
In hockey, hiring a Director of Statistical Analysis takes an open-minded General Manager.
It was more common for identical twins to both have Alzheimer's compared to non-identical, and a statistical analysis of risk rates in the groups gave the researchers their estimate of how significant genetic factors are.
Every day Zynga, the company that produces the online farm-tending game, runs extensive statistical analysis of reams of data.
Statistical analysis is already widely used in multiple-choice tests to catch out cheats.
These days some of the best minds in finance are using statistical skills and programming prowess to harness old-fashioned fundamental analysis.
In a letter sent to the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Wolfe outlined a statistical analysis he had done of a 1999 Pfizer-funded test of Celebrex as a preventative for Alzheimer's disease that had just been made available on an industry Web site of clinical trial results.
When something new is encountered, the follow-up steps usually require mathematical and statistical methods to move the analysis forward.
The statistical analysis showed that this difference this difference had a p-value of 0.04, a result the authors considered significant.
Indeed, the two most successful statistical analysis programs, SPSS and SAS, expanded from their domain-specific base (social science for SPSS and bio-medical research for SAS) to become tools used wherever there was data to analyze.
Any analysis of labour-market trends soon gets bogged down in a statistical swamp.
But only in the past 10 years, with the advent of detailed statistical analysis, has the shift become a tool employed against the less pull-happy hitters.
The disqualifications unleashed a flood of statistical analysis about badminton that wouldn't have been out of place at a fantasy-football draft.
What we need is a construct with teeth, an established network of industry-independent researchers (not contractors) equipped to evaluate trial design, statistical power, data analysis, and interpretation, not as regulators but as contributors to final research publications.
One of the ways scientists study the CMB is by subjecting the warm and cold spots in the radiation to a detailed statistical analysis, examining the deviations in temperature as a function of their size on the sky - their angular scale.
Second, we believe that, given that statistical analysis by a wide range of experts that say that between 40% and 70% of health-care costs are behaviorally based, we can do things like investing in wellness and preventive care and preventative screenings to actually reduce health-care costs.
But Scott Zeger, the head of the department of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, who performed the statistical analysis in the study, points out that clustered sampling is the rule rather than the exception in public-health studies, and that the patterns of deaths caused by epidemics are also very variable by location.
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