For example, the presumption that economic life repeats itself, eventually reverting to the mean, makes statistical work easier.
"It'll be interesting to see when you have enough games to have a decent statistical analysis, so we can work out what is myth and what is fact, " he added.
My company LRN conducted an independent statistical analysis of how things actually work at companies, small and large, derived from a lengthy and rigorous empirical study of observations from 36, 000 employees in 18 countries conducted by the Boston Research Group, The Center for Effective Organizations at University of Southern California and Research Data Technology, Inc.
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Women's work hours consistently increase divorce, whereas increases in men's work hours often have no statistical effect.
It would be equally unrealistic to suppose that employers can eliminate, or discover and explain, the myriad of innocent causes that may lead to statistical imbalances in the composition of their work forces.
This work explored different ways of using graphical statistical methods to communicate the information contained in the HDI.
Roeder's work revises predictions of lightning deaths by fitting a statistical curve to the historic data instead of averaging over time.
Google, to which Blunsom's work is closely connected, is internally testing a new statistical system that is refined to near-perfection by linguistic rules, he says.
Europeans work less time, but register faster productivity gains new ILO statistical volume highlights labour trends worldwide.
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Bloggers and others, mostly outside academia, who criticise CRU's work and other climate science tend to lay much stress on statistical shortcomings.
Dr Hand admires the meticulous work of Steve McIntyre, a mining consultant and blogger, who unearthed statistical problems in another climate analysis.
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This is why there are good statistical reasons to be cautious about jumping on the Avastin bandwagon for wet AMD just because it appears to work as well as Lucentis: Simply, the trend for adverse effects from Avastin is greater when the sample of patients is bigger.
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