Einstein had objected to Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and, in general, to the statistics-based, ultimately random foundation of life Bohr was promoting.
No statistics-based, computer-generated ranking system, which the Official World Golf Rankings is, will ever satisfy every sports fan's notion of who the best players or teams are at any given moment.
These early statistics show that fitness-based games are more engaging than just viewing progress on a chart.
Yet many questions remain, not least the refusal to let employers record their progress with race-based statistics.
The league table is officially known as a 'meta ranking', bringing in statistics gathered from the London-based newspaper's five more specialized rankings compiled earlier in the year, for global MBAs, executive education courses, masters degrees in management and Executive MBA (EMBA) programs.
In any case, bear in mind that the statistics reported here are based on long-term averages.
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The Code of Practice for Official Statistics says ministers must "ensure that no statement or comment - based on prior knowledge - is issued to the press or published ahead of the publication of the statistics" and reminds them of their duty "to promote trust and maximise public value" of official data.
As of right now, Saban is the only coach who receives a full 5-star rating based on 2012 statistics, alone.
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Denver-based Quality Education Data prepared statistics used in the SIIA report.
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The top ten list ranks companies by their cash donations (as a percentage of their net income) separately from in-kind contributions and is based on statistics compiled by The Chronicle and Forbes.
Taking into account all of the statistics, considering Spain's domineering tiki taka possession-based style and Brazil's "jogo bonito, " which team will history remember as the better?
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Audrey Silk, founder of Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, a city-based smokers' rights group, said the statistics cited by advocates are "questionable and disputable" but mostly irrelevant to the debate.
After the Games, Brazil could use the continued golf tourism boost the course could potentially bring, but if it is just another of the hundreds of worldwide Nicklaus courses, or ditto for Robert Trent Jones, Jr. and their brethren, the only way it could draw visitors if it turned out to be a spectacular, must-play courses, and based on experience and statistics that is highly, highly unlikely.
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Started in 1996, LiSim is a risk-analysis company based in Bogota, Colombia that uses statistics and behavioral analysis to determine the inherent risk in granting credit to a given client.
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But a council spokesman said the areas earmarked for CIZs were selected based on a number of statistics, including crime and anti-social behaviour figures, hospital admissions and the number of licensed premises.
She was relying on statistics from a nine-year-old report, which calculated percentage conviction rates based on the number of offences recorded by the police and the number of convictions.
The statistics, which also covered many other types of surgery and other less-invasive procedures, were based on a survey of 772 actively practicing plastic surgeons, dermatologists and otolaryngologists.
Based on the 3-month rolling average that WSTS (the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics) uses November sales were the highest month of the year and the first month of 2012 to come in higher than the same month of 2011.
Most home-based businesses (about 93%) don't have employees, according to SBA statistics.
The statement included technical background research and statistics, asked questions about how and why kids get their hands on guns and came to the evidence-based conclusion that if children have access to guns in their homes or neighborhoods, they are at risk of injury.
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