Sentence examples for a statistical examination from inspiring English sources

In August a team of researchers led by Chris Thomas of the University of York, Eng., published the results of a meta-analysis, a statistical examination of previous scientific studies, to examine the shifts in the geographic distribution of several groups of animal species caused by changes in climate.

A statistical examination of the N.Y.P.D.'s stop-and-frisk policies, conducted by the staff of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in the aftermath of Diallo's death, found that blacks were more than twice as likely to be stopped on the street for violent crimes.

They embodied their defense: average, anonymous cops....The prosecutors' initial unsteadiness came through in the classic manner of lawyers with a weak hand to play: they overstated their evidence... Writer mentions a statistical examination of the N.Y.P.D.'s stop-and-frisk policies, conducted by the staff of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

Such an outlier is detectable by a statistical examination of residuals.

Moreover, from a statistical examination of AFM scans, it can be inferred that the lateral facets of the pits have a dominant {111} orientation.

Scott et al. ([2009]) performed a statistical examination of outcomes of a safety education program for consumers on practices in using fresh produce and concluded that the food safety education program was effective in teaching consumers.

For example, the item indicates that the authors of a meta-analysis including fewer than 10 studies are not obligated to report any statistical examination of publication bias, very likely because of the "lack of power" of statistical tests to detect this bias [ 14].

However, due to relatively small groups of horses, the authors did not conduct any statistical examination of the results [ 10].

Although some of these factors are a consequence of the chemical properties of purines and pyrimidines, a thorough statistical examination of the distributions of YR/RR stretches in sequenced prokaryotic chromosomes has to the best of our knowledge, not been undertaken.

Multivariable risk-stratified analysis has been proposed as an important advance in investigating heterogeneity in treatment benefits, yet no one has conducted a systematic statistical examination of circumstances influencing the relative merits of this approach vs. conventional subgroup analysis.

In summary, the CDDmlr provides a reasonable statistical examination of the Wilcox-Russell hypothesis [ 2, 4, 5] concerning the potential effects of a stressor, i.e. its direct and/or indirect effects on infant mortality among "normal" as well as "compromised" births [ 8].