Sentence examples for doubtful statistics from inspiring English sources
Loukas Papademos was vice president of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and governor of the Bank of Greece when the country entered the euro on doubtful statistics; he is also a Harvard economist and a fluent German speaker, a man the Europeans might trust if they trust any Greek.
Some people, doubtful of the government statistics, suspect that the numbers are even higher.
The general election debate over the NHS has already become an exchange of insults, doubtful assertions and unreliable statistics of the kind voters find so unedifying.
But foes mutter that the state-level GDP statistics are assembled locally and of doubtful accuracy.
Even if his statistics are right and meaningful – which is doubtful – what proportion of this 2% with IQs above 130 are actually "the rich"?
The UK Science Media Centre concluded that "The paper does not support the claim that GM crops cause stomach inflammation or increased uterus weight," and quotes several statistics and animal health experts who are doubtful about the findings.
Since, agreements of pair wise comparison of tests (Kappa statistics) within species were generally better when all doubtful results were classified negative than as positives, for binary classification of results, doubtful sera were classified as negative for all tests, although the best agreement between two serological tests was only a moderate agreement (Kappa < 0.6).
This was not because we wanted to devalue its appropriateness for sampling plans, but rather because its contribution would be doubtful to the questions of this paper, based entirely on traditional frequentist statistics.
