Investors, politicians and the press connected what had previously been isolated controversies – in 2012 Tthe Guardian revealed that Serco had altered statistics and mismanaged an out-of-hours healthcare contract in Cornwall – into a pattern of failures and dishonesty.
When an existing time series is temporally extended, it is critical that previously generated change information remains consistent, thereby not altering reported change statistics or science outcomes based on that change information.
But critics say they are inaccessible to rural women, have done nothing to alter infanticide statistics and have shifted the focus from methods that might make a proper difference, such as counselling, free contraception and help for pregnant women and mothers in need.
"Of 1,100 buildings listed by a third-party data service, we had different classifications on 300, which can significantly alter the statistics," he said, adding that Studley brokers had a meeting last month during which the classification of 35 buildings was changed.
The user can also analyze and alter the statistics in various ways to tailor the results.
Altering those statistics takes more than just passing a law.
Far easier to add three minority representatives to the board of directors, or 10 minority faculty members to the roster of an Ivy League college, and then congratulate ourselves for having fought the good fight by slightly altering some statistics.
Altering visual experience early in development altered the statistics of tectal activity, and dark rearing also caused a long-lasting deficit in the ability to capture prey.
We then alter first the statistics of scenes; second the retinal response functions (and hence the statistics of "natural" images); and third the relationship between scenes and images; and in each case measure the effect on predictions of reflectance by the ideal observer.
FELICIA NIMUE ACKERMAN Providence, R.I., May 31 , 2012To the Editor: Re "A Ban Too Far" (editorial, June 1): To focus on education when discussing solutions to obesity misunderstands the scientific evidence about what can alter our staggering statistics and what manifestly cannot.
