Within the United States, the use of "life years lost" remains a politically charged debate, said Daniel Greenbaum, president of the Boston-based HealifeEffects Institute; although "life years lost" calculations may better reflect the impact of air quality regulations, these calculations also routinely lower the estimated benefits of regulation and are criticized as devaluing elderly citizens.
In order to reduce the number of statistical realizations without losing the calculation correctness, Latin hypercube sampling was applied.
On the paths between buildings, mule deer wander about, nibbling at potted plants and twitching their ears as rumpled engineers shuffle past, lost in calculation.
Unfortunately the individual measurements have been lost, preventing calculation of SEM values.
The spectators and journalists were united in preferring the side of the former world champion, but they got lost in calculations.
Thoughts of losing never enter their calculations.
Along the way, he draws a compelling portrait of the engineer as a second-class citizen dwelling in the shadow of the "pure scientist," denied the glory of Nobel prizes (despite its namesake's wish to honor engineers), laboring patiently over endless calculations and losing sleep over possible errors.
But when people got talking about politics, the quaint setting was lost to cold calculation and a litany of worries about what was to come.
When millions of dollars can be won or lost on one calculation, firms are finding it essential that their new hires can tell the difference between a pivot table and a header row.
Rather, just demographic data, in particular the individual line items in the international classification of diseases are ranked using the disability-adjusted years of potential life lost (DALY) demographic calculation.
