Indeed, two basic facts speak more loudly than any statistical study could.
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The new statistical study confirms that rights-based fisheries are generally healthier.
These included a groundbreaking statistical study published by Small and Prof.
The Airline Quality Rating report is the premier statistical study of major airline performance in the United States, and has been conducted annually since 1991.
The McClellan Oscillator, a statistical study of money entering and leaving the New York Stock Exchange, closed at -317 on Wednesday, the most oversold reading since May 20, 2010, when it reached -420.
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.
An older study found statistical significance only among west-coast teams, who saw their away-game winning percentage fall by 16% when playing on the east coast, compared with travelling within their home time zone.
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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.
This study presents a statistical analysis of ultra high net worth individuals based on two criteria: the sources of wealth and the involvement of the family in the business.
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For years on end Mr van der Meer made a study of the statistical properties of the motion of particles in accelerators: sometimes late into the night, and sometimes lost in deep reflection.
Many doctors here say they believe the mortality issue in the Lipitor study is a statistical fluke, brought on partly by the fact that there were actually very few deaths--and very few heart problems--in the trial.
The HDI tree was one of the graphical statistical methods introduced in the visualization study conducted by MIT professor Cesar A. Hidalgo with the help of Northeastern University Professor of Design Isabel Meirelles and designers Geoffrey House and Dave Landry.
He says the reason that the new study failed to reach statistical significance may be related because 20 milligrams of Zocor is more powerful than 40 milligrams of Pravachol, the Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ) drug that Lipitor beat in a clinical trial in March.
But these are mere quibbles about a well-researched study, full of valuable statistical data, marred only by the author's apparent desire to kill the thing he loves.
Despite seemingly tight controls, 26% of children withdrew early from the study and the data lost statistical significance if 18-month data for the dropouts were included in the calculations.
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Because of the this change, and because the data and safety monitoring board reviewed the data multiple times over the course of the study, the threshold for statistical significance was lowered to 0.036.
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In contrast, two researchers connected with A to Z defended the results, asserting in interviews that the study fell just short of statistical significance and describing the results as new evidence that patients who have suffered heart attacks should take powerful doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
Mariel Jessup of the University of Pennsylvania noted that the study did not really have the statistical power to make such conclusions.
One reason for BMI's tenacity can be seen in the availability of so many patients for the JAMA study, enough to provide the statistical power to detect 6% differences in mortality among groups.
In a related study, German and Swiss researchers used statistical methods to analyze the six largest trials comparing Cypher to Taxus, involving 3, 669 patients.
Study leader Catherine Thomson, head of statistical information at Cancer Research UK, said the figures in particular from Liverpool and Sunderland were "alarmingly high".
The new study does not reach the level of statistical significance.
Some experts have cast doubt on whether the statistical analysis used to interpret the data in the study gives an accurate assessment of true risk.
The study, which looked at 385 metropolitan statistical areas, said nearly two in five metropolitan areas had one insurance company with a combined market share of 50 percent or more among health maintenance organization (HMO), point-of-service (POS) and preferred provider organization (PPO) plans.
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They asked Roche for full clinical study reports, with study protocols, the reporting analysis plan, the statistical analysis plan and individual patient data so that all they could more fully determine what could be concluded from the studies.
But though he has nothing but praise for the way the study was conducted and reported, he notes that this statistical significance is only borderline.
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The study came to two conclusions: One, there was no statistical difference health-wise between any of the four groups.
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Statistical significance is a combination of two factors: how many patients were included in the study and how much the drug helped them.
Economists tend to look at statistical aggregates covering high and low end income, and in doing so, fail to study the career paths of individuals.
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