It will be much more accurate because it includes the use of statistical science to correct precisely for undercounts and double counting.
Prof Donnelly, a professor of statistical science at Oxford University and director of the Wellcome Trust centre for human genetics, said DNA samples were analysed at about 500, 000 different points.
The document, written by John Jenkins, the director of the Office of New Drugs, and Paul Seligman, director of the office that handles statistical science and epidemiology, clearly spells out the reasons for the Bextra recall and what Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) would have to do to get that drug back on the market.
He dedicated his life to elevating economics into a more precise science using mathematical and statistical techniques.
Curious about the true state of the planet, the author who makes no claims to expertise in environmental science, only to statistical expertise has scrutinised reams of official data on everything from air pollution to energy availability to climate change.
The Expert Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation for South East Europe to convene on Thursday 22 November as a preparatory event to the round table will discuss the above-indicated STI system capacity in SEE and pay particular attention to the research infrastructures, statistical data, regional networks and communication of science.
Bloggers and others, mostly outside academia, who criticise CRU's work and other climate science tend to lay much stress on statistical shortcomings.
In Mongolia, the current statistical data collected by the National Statistical Office and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science does not fully reflect the diversity of the cultural industries sector in the country.
So Silver's argument amounts to (1) faulting journalism for not being social science, and (2) engaging in faulty statistical thinking himself.
At the best of times, statistical studies of economic phenomena are exercises in economic history, not economic science.
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The percentage of 14 year olds achieving the expected level was almost in line with statistical neighbours and was better than the national average for English, mathematics and science.
Now, better statistical tools and neuroscience are opening up the possibility that economics can become an abductive science that combines elements of deductive and inductive reasoning.
Today, large streams of data, coupled with statistical analysis and sophisticated algorithms, are rapidly gaining importance in almost every field of science, politics, journalism, and much more.
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.
The UIS is the statistical office of UNESCO and the UN depositary for internationally comparable statistics in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and communication.
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.
Kennesaw State University offers a Master of Science in applied statistics, a minor in applied statistics and data analysis and a SAS certificate in statistical analysis.
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