It's a matter of statistical probabilities.
Whether cancer will return is a matter of statistical likelihoods derived from the study of large groups of patients — or, in lay terms, "bad luck".
An effective senior banker is (wrongly) imagined to be aggressive, dominating, transactional — characteristics that are stereotypically masculine and that are, as a matter of statistical fact, more commonly associated with men, as a recent study called "The Athena Doctrine" showed.
For this rather substantial collection of players, there is no indication of approach or contribution – merely the nominal acknowledgement that they are lumped together as a matter of statistical convenience.
The court also relied upon State Farms massive wealth and on testimony indicating that State Farms actions, because of their clandestine nature, will be punished at most in one out of every 50,000 cases as a matter of statistical probability, ___ P.3d, at ___, 2001 WL 1246676, at *15, and concluded that the ratio between punitive and compensatory damages was not unwarranted.
They are thus accepting that one result in 20 will be falsely positive but one in 20 seems a satisfactorily low rate.Understanding insignificanceIn 2005 John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist from Stanford University, caused a stir with a paper showing why, as a matter of statistical logic, the idea that only one such paper in 20 gives a false-positive result was hugely optimistic.
Findings like the ones that Olds has produced over the years are complex and replete with caveats: matters of statistical insignificance, data sparseness, and the like.
Clearly arcane matters of statistical plans do matter and steering committees should think very carefully before changing the primary end-points of major trials.
It may simply be a matter of low statistical power to detect an effect.
On this matter, the use of statistical approaches applied to reproduced climate signals of several nearby situated specimens, like stalagmites from one cave, can help to reduce age uncertainties.
Now as you might imagine, there were some matters of mild statistical significance in the partisan breakdown of the respondents.
