I watched the run-up to those contests closely; devoured all the analysis that suggested Mr. Romney would continue to roll, and when the results came in, thought, My, that was random.
Three law professors from Campbell University, a Baptist college about 30 miles south of Raleigh, came out with a paper contesting this analysis, saying that this "much broader view of the amendment and its consequences has little support in the amendment's language or context, or in court decisions from North Carolina or other states".
While the tax study has emerged as a major component of the economic debate at the core of this year's presidential campaign, Mr. Romney did not allude to the analysis to contest its conclusions as he campaigned in Colorado on Thursday.
This analysis is highly suited to the analysis of contest behavior because it accounts for the covariance structure of multiple response variables and provides composite measures of behaviors that best describe the variation in the data (Jolliffe 2002).
But O.J.'s lawyer Malcolm LaVergne contests that analysis.
A 1973 analysis of the map by the McCrone Research Institute in Chicago, which also has analyzed the Shroud of Turin, detected the presence of anatase, a form of titanium dioxide first available in pure form in the late 1920s, indicating the map was a modern invention, though some experts contest the accuracy of that analysis.
In the analysis of tied contestants, correlations between contestants in the same contest were accounted for by including "contest" as a third random factor.
The analysis here contests its alleged long-term benefits for the public interest and wellbeing.
This allowed us to investigate the effects of male age and social experience on contest behavior and contest outcome (analysis of the first contest), as well as how these treatments influenced winner and loser effects (analysis of second contest).
Restricting the analysis to those contests that were resolved within the 15-min observation time, both sex and RSD were correlated with resolution time (Fig. 1a).
Mr. Schnur was referring to the Republican contest, but his analysis could apply to the Democrats, too, especially if Mr. Gore wins the state that he has long called his fire wall.
