Sturgis had previously indicated to the Guardian that online polling, which draws samples from large panels of volunteers, might be a flawed method, saying: "Not everyone puts themselves forward to take part, and those who do will not be representative.
-Robert Hutton argues that betting markets are a flawed method for predicting political outcomes.
All data have to be accounted for or explained, and, while often a perfectly reasonable explanation is that an outlier was derived from a methodologically flawed study, outliers need to be examined closely before being excluded on methodological grounds alone.
Visionics uses a mathematical method called local feature analysis and combines it with the eigenheads approach, derived from an earlier method called eigenfaces, invented in 1987.
This practice apparently derives from a centuries-old harvest method.
Professor Montserrat's method seems to derive from a close reading of the texts, rather than the kind of computer analysis Professor Foster uses.
Finally, we finally applied this method to DNA derived from a tumor sample and demonstrated improved mutation detection accuracy.
Census Bureau officials estimate the number of people undercounted and overcounted by comparing the figures from traditional census taking methods with data derived from a sample of American households.
Oxalo's preventative drug, derived from a natural gut bacterium, will offer significant advantages over current treatment methods.
Data derived from a non-reflective plate were used as a negative control to validate the evaluation method.
The other challenge to historical methods is the preponderance of false-positives derived from a confirmation bias that affects individuals, teams, and organizations.
