Is he worried about an embarrassment, in which dropped-out candidates who are still on the ballot – such as former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore – garner protest votes?
Figure 3 gives an overview of the observed correlations between X and Y before and after the drop-out process in the simulations in which drop-out was selective on X.
Drop-out that was selective on both variables suppressed the regression coefficient (but less so than in the example in which drop-out was selective on the criterion only) and also reduced the correlation between predictor and criterion (r = 0.77 after drop-out).
It's sad that the only major role models in our society today, especially for teenagers, are the faces in People Magazine and TMZ -- half of which dropped out after high school, giving millions of teenagers the false hope that they can become like them, too.
"The leadership of a university has encouraged an endeavor in which students drop out in order to do something that will enrich the faculty".
The two former British possessions on Borneo, Sabah and Sarawak, joined the new federation of Malaysia in 1963 (together with Singapore, which dropped out two years later).
When I came back in March, I watched several groups participate in a grueling shuttle run, similar to what basketball players refer to as "suicides" — a series of back-and-forth sprints, with short rest, in which participants dropped out in exhaustion until only one was left.
In her Web column today, Katharine Q. Seelye speculates about a possible bargain between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in which she drops out and throws her support behind him in exchange for his embrace of one of her signature issues: universal health care.
This is especially true in the after-care, in which the drop-out rates appear to be high.
This study is a multi-centre randomized controlled trial in which treatment drop-out rates of Moroccan and Turkish immigrants with depressive and anxiety disorders, who are treated by therapists trained in cultural competences, are compared to those who receive regular care.
