Sentence examples for distribution of ability from inspiring English sources
The Pareto distribution has been used to empirically describe the distribution of the sizes of firms (Simon and Bonini 1958) and was used by Lucas (1978) to illustrate certain of his theoretical results; the scale economies of ability imply a match between the distribution of ability and the distribution of sizes of firms.
Items were excluded from further analysis if the difference in the value of the item difficulty parameters was more than half of the value of the standard deviance of the underlying distribution of ability parameters.
SEM is an adequate measure if one needs a general statistic for describing the likely accuracy of the score achieved by a randomly chosen candidate (but not for individual candidates at the extremes of the distribution of ability).
This first GWAS of mathematical ability and disability has nominated 46 SNP associations across two high- vs. low-ability samples, 10 of which have been validated in a third sample spanning the entire distribution of ability as a test of the QTL hypothesis.
The nomination of this set of SNPs in two high- vs. low-ability samples, and the significant influence the set demonstrates over individual differences across the normal distribution of ability, supports the QTL hypothesis that the same genes affect the entire spectrum of phenotypic expression.
But we believe that fatalism is indicative of a dated mind-set; one that believes in a distribution of abilities so fixed that great teaching can do little to change them".
But we believe that fatalism is indicative of a dated mind-set; one that believes in a distribution of abilities so fixed that great teaching can do little to change.
When students are drawn from a population distribution into a class, their realized distribution of abilities is predictably linked to the size of the class.
The distribution of abilities of young workers entering the labor market at date t−1 is defined by the interval a t − 1 i ε a ̲ t − 1, a ¯ t − 1.
A third line of evidence concerns the relationship between disorder and the distribution of abilities in the population as a whole.
