Nan Laird, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved with the study, says that she believes both the analysis and the data-gathering techniques used by Dr Roberts to be sound.
The move comes amid widening scrutiny of the commercial data-gathering industry, which has been chronicled in The Wall Street Journal's "What They Know" series.
The reassuring truth is, these rankings rely on the most rigorous data-gathering techniques and calibration processes known to man.
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Organisers in London insist the expedition's data-gathering is still important for research - despite the setbacks - and describe reaching the Pole as "largely irrelevant".
About 30 vehicles would be leased under the arrangement, with the company gathering data from on-board computers.
The data companies maintain that gathering the prescription data is good for public health--for instance, it might show that in a poor area with a high asthma rate too few inhalers have been prescribed.
The scientists, from Norway and the UK, report their innovative data-gathering method in Geophysical Research Letters, published by the American Geophysical Union.
Blogging pioneer Doc Searls has long argued that customers should shield their data and charge a price for it, turning the tables on marketing giants and their data-gathering web-crawlers.
Scotland Yard said the arrest - under Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 - relates to a "suspected conspiracy" involving the gathering of data from stolen mobile phones.
Data gathering and number crunching for the two-year study was done by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a big government contractor, with input from academics and oil companies like Shell, BP, Marathon Energy.
These chip cards, debit and credit cards and other forms of cashless payments are huge opportunities for data gathering, and indeed, behind-the-scenes marketing firms are scraping off Internet sites as much information on individual spending habits as they can.
Google has maintained in its defense against the class action that it did nothing illegal by gathering data from open Wi-Fi networks.
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Bloomberg executives rushed to reassure them, when it came out last week that Bloomberg reporters had been using data gleaned from subscriber terminals to get an edge in the competitive news-gathering business.
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Your consumers are using an ever widening array of devices and sources to support their data gathering habits and their almost addictive-like craving for the latest piece of information to help them complete a task, or be one up on their friends, associates or competition.
Data-gathering on such a scale is quite a feat, but the calculation of benefits is even harder.
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The fiberglass hull glides on the surface, with solar panels to power its electronics and sealed boxes to protect data-gathering instruments.
The photo is part of a 10-year project that is gathering mountains of data to help guide future research, scientists said.
In early July, German data protection officials in Hamburg announced the start of legal action against Facebook, accusing it of gathering data belonging to non-Facebook members.
They have yet to feel the full impact of the latest round of QE and the early signs of FLS (funding for lending scheme) require more quarter-data gathering.
We have been gathering and analyzing data throughout the year, employing the same tested and data-driven process with which TrueBridge underwrites its investments, and using our broad networks to assess the state of the venture capital industry as a whole.
It mentioned the widespread criticism Google faced and the fines it had to pay after it inadvertently scooped up data from unprotected wi-fi networks while gathering information for its Street View service.
For the past 18 months engineers have been testing coal, petroleum coke (a refining by-product) and other fuels in the plant, tinkering with the catalyst and gathering data.
FracFocus was never designed to serve as a comprehensive data gathering tool for activist groups whose real desire is to shut down the most significant economic-driving engine America has seen over the last decade.
That low-flying helicopter crisscrossing the skies over the San Francisco Bay Area for the next three days is gathering data on background radiation levels, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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