L.A. But what counts as significant in a statistical analysis is a function of where you set the bar.
It's not clear whether this was a statistical blip or a warning sign that excess testosterone could cause or spur the growth of a malignancy.
The scariest thing for the people that run English football is that this isn't simply a statistical oddity but a creeping trend: In the past five years, Messrs.
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.
The experts say Greece has been the victim of a statistical cruelty: a revision of the data showed that Greece's debt and deficit were worse than previously thought, so it has a steeper climb to recovery.
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In a few years, Turner says we should know whether this is just a statistical fluke, or a real clue about the fabric of our universe.
The first is the administration's use of "disparate impact, " a statistical divining rod deployed in a widening array of federal antidiscrimination lawsuits.
They enlisted one of their fellows to do a statistical analysis, and published a Sept. 2001 paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association calling for an investigation into potential heart risks caused by Vioxx and Celebrex, a competing drug from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
Denis Campbell at the UK Progressive, has written a series of posts based on the statistical analysis of a former NSA analyst that show an inexplicable but recurrent statistical anomaly.
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It offers its users improved search and browsing functionalities, a downloadable dataset, statistical summaries and a more streamlined feedback tool.
His approach relies on a statistical technique invented in 1943 by a British statistician, Ronald Fisher, and now widely used by geologists and ecologists to estimate the diversity of populations (of, say, fossils or beetles).
"From about 1990, a group in the U.S. came up with the idea of just treating it as a statistical problem -- more of a machine learning problem where you essentially ignore linguistics and just look for patterns in data, " he said.
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.
Though a statistical analysis of history provides averages across a wide variety of market conditions, the relevant periods for analysis are those with similar characteristics.
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For the vocabulary portion Katzman and colleague Adam Robinson performed a statistical analysis of past tests and honed a list of only 200 words to drill kids.
This is a statistical measure designed to show how well a school has helped its pupils progress since they arrived from primary school, taking into account their different starting points.
Disentangling the two relationships is impossible unless a third variable with the right statistical properties, a so-called instrument, can be found and exploited.
Models are merely a statistical tool, no different than surgical instruments for a surgeon, or wrenches to a mechanic.
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However, this could merely be a statistical fluke that results from the fact that to date only a few score of Higgs candidate events have been observed amongst billions of particle collisions.
The bond markets expect Mr Greenspan to read recent inflation data, unexpectedly high, as a statistical blip, and to cut interest rates by at least a quarter-point, perhaps even before the next scheduled Fed meeting on March 20th.
While at first, Lackritz seemed rather confident that a Cinderella team will make the Final Four, he later informed FORBES of a statistical projection he uses, which demonstrates that there is actually only a 30-40% chance that one of the Cinderella teams will be heading to Atlanta.
If we remove Venezuela as an extreme case, and we make a statistical correlation of all the other countries in Latin America, this preliminary data set shows a very low correlation between personal and economic freedom.
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"It is important to understand that the correction centered on the description of a single statistical method, " Kim said in a statement.
For those of you without a statistical app on your GPS, those engagement assessments and sales increases correspond to one another with a whopping 0.72 correlation, which is marketing mileage any CMO would like to drive.
Investors have been trying to stay afloat amid crosscurrents of conflicting economic data, yet it all boils down to one key question: Is the decline in housing a statistical anomaly related to the expiration of the first-time home buyer credit or is it a leading indicator of another sharp decline in the housing market?
But the two are in a statistical tie in the most recent CNN Poll of Polls, and neither has been able to take a commanding lead in the state.
Census points to a few remaining pieces that come out of their regular U.S. surveys but the Statistical Abstract was a lot more than that.
He was a man whose contributions to the community, hospitals, civic boards and charities far outweighed his statistical achievements as a Hall of Fame baseball player.
The team has made a statistical study of which antihydrogen atoms went where - up or down - and they are able to put a first set of constraints on how the anti-atoms respond to gravity.
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.
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