Qualitatively there is no doubt that higher taxes have reduced smoking, but with that said, it's very difficult from a statistical standpoint to figure out what caused the real reduction.

从品质上说，毫无疑问，施行高税额已经减少了抽烟现象，但是就是如此说法，从统计学观点来看也很难确定究竟是什么导致了真正的减少。

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Conclusions the reduction in death from all causes among patients with COPD in the combination-therapy group did not reach the predetermined level of statistical significance.

结论：联合治疗对COPD患者死亡率的降低并未达到预期的水平和统计学意义。

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Experiments show that this system is particularly effective for statistical noise reduction within the complete television image bandwidth.

实时处理实验表明，该系统对降低图像的统计型全频带噪声特别有效。

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After 15 years the reduction in risk achieved statistical significance, and by 20 years the risk was similar to women who had never smoked.

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One model which materialists use for their reductive view of consciousness is from physics: for instance, in the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, the temperature of a gas is explained in terms of the mean kinetic energy of its constituent molecules.

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That translates into a 16% reduction in risk that is highly unlikely, according to statistical tests, to be due to chance.

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