But us statisticians are allowed to fantasise a little, so here's a hypothetical challenge.
in a hypothetical challenge to her 2014 reelection bid, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling.
"I would think that the mere specification of what contractors you can use doesn't rise to the level of transforming Medicaid and so... NY's hypothetical challenge would fail," he wrote to HuffPost.
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) gave me an even deeper understanding of Dr. Rand's hypothetical rationing challenge.
Sir, We read with great interest the recent Short Communication by Korn and Freidlin (2015), which considers hypothetical examples challenging the 'match/mismatch' analysis presented in Tian et al (2014).
To analyze the impact of new annotations on accuracy estimates of protein function predictors, we designed a hypothetical prediction challenge similar to CAFA (Radivojac et al., 2013), with three methods as virtual participants: GOtcha, BLAST and Swiss-Prot computational annotation (evidence codes: ISS, ISO, ISA, ISM, IGC, IBA, IBD, IKR, IRD, RCA and IEA).
These hypotheticals are challenging to characterize and quantify.
Sandra Stein, a former Baruch College professor who is the dean of the academy, said that the future principals would be confronted with an array of hypothetical issues and challenges intended to teach them how to organize professional development for teachers, for example, or to manage a school budget.
Then Dylan Matthews, a staff reporter on the team (and creator of the highly addictive "Knowmore" site) used a hypothetical scenario to challenge the importance of inequality.
