The exploratory nature of this research allowed us to take a somewhat data-driven approach to the structural model.
The methodology for examining such an analytical model in a quantitative sense, based on DEA, is briefly explained in Section 4. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a somewhat new "data-oriented" approach for estimating quantitatively the comparative performance of a set of peer entities called Decision-Making Units (DMUs), which convert multiple inputs into multiple outputs.
$40 gets you unlimited nationwide talk, $45 gets you talk/text, and $50 gets you all of the above with a somewhat paltry 20MB data allotment for web and picture messaging.
The program fell into a somewhat untested area of data collection law and was run outside the American court system; the Bush administration claimed the authority for it partly through the president's emergency economic powers.
While the sex ratio data show a somewhat gradual increase in degree of female bias with increasing sociality, the nearest neighbour data show a more dramatic distinction between social and subsocial species (Fig. 1b).
The European data indicate a somewhat lower incidence but there are not very many published studies, and there very few data relating to Italian children [ 17- 20].
The analysis of a somewhat smaller sample with complete data and no imputation confirmed our results, which indicated that missing data were random.
Our data show a somewhat higher prevalence at both 3 and 6 years even when correcting for the background IBS prevalence present in our data.
A typhoon in 1984 had gusts of up to 201 miles an hour, according to data from a somewhat sheltered weather station in the middle of the island.
Some 85,000 jobs were lost to end 2009, a disappointing number for analysts looking for a gain.The household data paint a somewhat uglier picture.
But other economic data paint a somewhat brighter picture of recent growth, suggesting that the pace of job creation might increase without any additional action by the Fed.
