Given my analytic bent, I was intrigued that one of the strongest factors in the statistical model between peer social support and mortality was the perception of control.

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The unmarried with poor support looks similar in life satisfaction to the married with poor support, but again, the authors did not report statistical tests for that comparison.

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The Office of Management and Budget and the Economics and Statistics Administration within the Department of Commerce worked together with federal statistical agencies to create Women in America in support of the Council on Women and Girls.

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His books consist of a series of plainly stated statistical observations, in support of deceptively modest conclusions, and the evidence in support of his original observation is now so overwhelming that the Flynn effect has moved from theory to fact.

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Polls show the race in the Palmetto State is a statistical dead-heat, and reveal much of Mr McCain's support comes from independents, just as it did in New Hampshire, where independents went for McCain over Bush by 60% to 20%.

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Along with the conventional statistical comparisons and projections, a plethora of new-age calculations developed by sabermetricians will be used to ardently support positions presented by both parties during the negotiations.

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