You'll remember the question of whether the deficit in the past year was lower - or higher - than in 2011-12 was one of the great statistical excitements of this year's Budget.
What's more, the work of Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School has shown there is no statistical link between one year's economic growth and the next year's stockmarket returns.
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He made his conclusions by running the numbers for each game this year through a statistical regression and confirmed the results by testing games from previous years.
And the federal budget went into statistical balance in 1965, the year after the JFK rate cut.
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Throughout this year, the only statistical comfort to be drawn was from figures relating to consumer behaviour.
The only way to show compensation still rising is to combine forward- and backward-looking measures of pay in any year, a misleading statistical technique.
In 1992, the most recent year for which a complete statistical profile exists, almost half of welfare recipients had not com pleted high school.
Just prior to the election this year, Rose interviewed Nate Silver, who describes his statistical analysis of polls, what ultimately were his correct predictions for the major elections of the year, and his book, The Signal and the Noise.
Earlier this month, India's statistical office lowered its growth forecast for the year to 31 March 2013, saying it now expects the economy to grow by just 5% during the period.
The number of federal individual income tax returns examined by the Internal Revenue Service has continuously increased over the past five years, with 1 out of every 90 taxpayers examined in fiscal year 2010, according to a statistical report released today by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
At GCSE, 54% of Kent pupils achieved five or more top grades last year, compared with 53% for statistical neighbours and just under 50% nationally.
However, as you go further out, to a five-year measure compiled by our staff's statistical aces, the picture blurs.
Save for a few dips, the RV market has since been climbing, with a 5% gain last year to 289, 000 vehicles, according to Statistical Surveys in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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.
Some statistical back flips needed to be performed to compare the scores of a 4-year-old entering kindergarten with those of a 5-year-old, and the two test scores were combined.
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That year, had the largest annual decline in the history of our (annual statistical) series.
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The statistical war about Scotland's future has broken out again, as it does every year around midsummer.
There are growing statistical signs that, after a flurry of government panic over plummeting tax revenue around mid-year, Germany will after all just about meet the 3% target.
During the current budget year, the Census Bureau, under orders from Congress, has scattered a unit called Statistical Compendia Branch.
It found that the percentages of seven and 11 year olds achieving the expected level were lower in Kent compared with those nationally and with their statistical neighbours.
On October 17th Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office, announced that consumer-price inflation in the Euro area had risen to a six-year high of 2.8% in the year to September.
In April, tourism was still down 35% in comparison to last year, reported the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, a government office that collects statistical data on the country.
The 10-year German benchmark was pressured lower to 2.42% after an EU report from the Luxembourg statistical office showed a slowdown in producer price inflation to an annual pace of 5.9% in June.
In fact, three of the worst 10-year periods of real returns have come in the past six months, a record that practically begs for statistical redress.
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