Sentence examples for positive statistic from inspiring English sources

On the one hand, it's a positive statistic.

That was their biggest positive statistic of the day.

This season, it is 3.6 plays and 12.6 yards, and even that is a deceptively positive statistic.

But while celebrating the drop, state officials found themselves trying to explain a less positive statistic: Massachusetts had the lowest rate of seat belt use in the country last year, 66.8percentt, compared with a national average of 83percentt.

Still, it is a positive statistic, and Mr. Estrada's aides said it would be no small feat for a country consumed by the legal travails of its leader, who was being tried on corruption charges.

In another positive statistic, deaths from unintentional drug overdoses were down to 549 in the 2011 fiscal year from 905 in 2003.

We considered genes with Benjamini and Hochberg adjusted P-values less than 5% that also have a greater than 50% chance of being differentially expressed (positive B- statistic) as having statistically significant changes in their expression profiles.

This statistical procedure examines values in adjacent areas (counties), is two-sided, and calculates a standard normal z-score in which a positive test statistic indicates a tendency toward a clustered distribution and a negative statistic a tendency toward a uniform (dispersed) distribution.

A positive test statistic implied that adults were more similar to one another than were juveniles, while a negative test statistic implied that juveniles were more similar to one another than were adults.

Even with advance warning of a crackdown, 104 of the 1,200 or so tests proved positive, a statistic that surpassed the 5% threshold, demonstrating how widespread the problem was and/or how stupid many of the players were.

Thus we are accepting the fact that of the 170 probe-sets, 17 may be associated with a false positive test statistic [19].