But the agency said it could not quantify that effect.
First, while hierarchical clustering can be used to break a set of samples into groups, within which expression patterns are similar in some way, it does not quantify that similarity.
Again, it's too early to quantify that but it has real promise.
To quantify that, it measured the number of advertisers delivering at least 1 billion impressions per quarter.
However, while it is clear that changes in the demography of the school-going population have had some impact, it is difficult to quantify that impact, since these changes overlap in complex ways.
"The characteristics of how people eat probably contribute something, but it's hard to quantify that," Willett says.
"It's difficult to quantify that," said study co-author Thomas Stoerk, an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, when asked to give his own estimate.
And while it's hard to quantify that claim, the company certainly achieved some success in attracting investors: Paul Graham's influential Y Combinator incubator selected Rescue Forensics for funding, after which TechCrunch dubbed the service the "software eats sex trafficking".
And while it's hard to quantify that claim, the company certainly achieved some success in attracting investors: Paul Graham's influential Y Combinator incubator selected Rescue Forensics for funding, after which TechCrunch dubbed the service the "software [that] eats sex trafficking".
I'm not quite sure how you quantify that, but it's not surprising.
