Chief Statistician and Senior Statistician at the Scottish government, Roger Halliday and Dette Cowden gave evidence.

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Denny Way, a senior statistician at Pearson, said the method allowed the city to compare its own students with those considered gifted across the country.

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Senior Statistician Ma Xiaoming said the sales price decrease indicates that, after arduous and unremitting efforts, the momentum of housing prices in general have been effectively curbed, and achieved remarkable results in the real estate regulation.

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However, the upward trend is unlikely to continue as the holiday effect fades and warmer weather starts to bolster food supplies, said Yu Qiumei, a senior statistician with the bureau, suggesting CPI growth will ease this month.

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So far the October to January cocoa harvest in the African country has been strong, according to Laurent Pipitone, senior statistician at the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), "but the second part of the main harvest (January to March) is expected to be relatively poor, " thanks to the lack of rainfall between August and October of 2009.

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"It is possible that the Toumai fossil is more recent than previously thought, " said Nick Patterson, a senior research scientist and statistician at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and lead author on the Nature paper.

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