Sentence examples for interpreting statistics from inspiring English sources

One version required computing statistical measures, whereas the other required interpreting statistics in the context of biological applications.

"A common mistake when interpreting statistics is to look at them from too short a distance".

He is on a mission to explode our ignorance about interpreting statistics and doesn't pull any punches on the way.

But maths, more than any other subject, has benefited me: in interpreting statistics (crucial for a journalist); in working out the cheapest item on the supermarket shelf; or in predicting where Arsenal will be in the table if they win/lose/draw their next game.

In the real climate system, the given graph was true in the relatively short period of the 1980s-90s, the producers have failed to follow their own admonition to avoid the "common mistake when interpreting statistics — look[ing] at them from too short a distance".

Here we come to the difficult job of interpreting statistics, because a bald 19% may seem to indicate quite a sizeable increase – but that number represents a correlation rather than a causal factor, spread over six levels, for a disorder that you have a tiny risk of being diagnosed with in the first place (of 1,815 children in the sample, 26 met the criteria).

Do you need to learn how to read and interpret statistics in medical literature?

It's an easy mistake for a lay person to interpret statistics on entering teachers as representative of the teaching workforce.

With no central argument to hang it on, the flesh of Mind Change collapses into a sub-Gladwellian mash-up of hand-picked studies, just-so anecdotes and carefully interpreted statistics.

We should weigh and interpret statistics helping audiences to judge their magnitude and importance.

Having a solid grasp of the following letters will help students read and interpret statistics.