But it's Mr. Weisman's more marginal facts that give "The World Without Us" so much curiosity value.
It makes the genre sound marginal, when, in fact, climate change is moving to the center of human experience.
Multivariate regression models show a high explanatory capacity of spatial variables on community participation and the effect of sociodemographic variables is in fact marginal.
The effects of the intervention on these (secondary) outcomes were marginal, though the fact that results were clearer for anxiety may indicate that MUVD reflects uncertainty about the origins of a presumably physical problem.
As can be readily seen, even with large proportions of data missing, all three methods perform equally well with only marginal differences, a fact that was also observed for sNMF and ADMIXTURE in Frichot et al. (2014).
Another difficulty arises from the fact that marginal productivity assumes that the factors of production can be added to each other in small quantities.
But in proposing tax incentives for private health insurance, the Tories are offering voters a genuine, if marginal, difference.In fact, the announcement this week that the Tories would examine ways of encouraging private health insurance was not new.
The fact that marginal tax rates rose so differently for various groups means not only that redistributive public policy depressed the labor market but has also sharply, and arbitrarily, altered the composition of the work force in the direction of people who are married and more skilled.
Add to this marginal input/output discrepancy the fact that the data does not yet include Scotland, and includes only partial returns for Wales and Northern Ireland, and the productivity conclusions look less than robust.
Meanwhile the fundamental problem of the market integration of intermittent RES with near-zero marginal costs - the fact that an increase in feed-in amounts is associated with a decrease in market value - remains unsolved.
As pointed out by Shapley [5], this simply follows from the representation of the Shapley value as a convex combination of marginal vectors and the fact that the core of a convex game contains its Weber set.
