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The five main dimensions of human personality were discovered using a statistical technique called factor analysis.
ECONOMIST: Animal behaviour
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For most major league seasons when running a statistical technique called simple linear regression, the number of wins is statistically correlated with team payroll.
FORBES: Baseball's Most and Least Efficient Teams for the 2010 Season
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The only way to show compensation still rising is to combine forward- and backward-looking measures of pay in any year, a misleading statistical technique.
ECONOMIST: A debate over how much American bosses are paid
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With these separate pieces of information, the researchers used a new statistical technique to seek out any associations between genes and how intelligence levels might have shifted over the years.
WSJ: Intelligence Changes Linked to Genes
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These two correlations do not by themselves prove that chronic stress damages the memory, but Dr Evans and Dr Schamberg then applied a statistical technique called hierarchical regression to the results.
ECONOMIST: Neuroscience and social deprivation
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His approach relies on a statistical technique invented in 1943 by a British statistician, Ronald Fisher, and now widely used by geologists and ecologists to estimate the diversity of populations (of, say, fossils or beetles).
ECONOMIST: Statistics
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The researchers used a sophisticated statistical modeling technique to assess viral load and CD4 cell loss in more than 2, 800 patients with HIV who were not receiving treatment.
BBC: Cell infected with HIV
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Some service providers use a technique called statistical multiplexing , to get round this.
BBC: Digital technology - pros and cons
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In early 2010, Google Goggles came out, extracting text from an image taken by a user and converting it with the help of a technique called statistical machine translation.
FORBES: Borderless Conversations: Relevance, Not Translation, Is the Challenge
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Republicans spent much of the 1997 appropriations season battling the administration over its plan to use statistical sampling, a technique that uses data from the traditional head count to estimate the number of those who did not respond to census takers.
CNN: By Juliana Gruenwald, CQ Staff Writer