However, the point of our framework is not to select once and for all a best segmentation tool, but rather to justify the use of one method for one particular type of scenario (cancer type, cellularity, data set).
Marketing messages about new technologies often attribute the benefits to the technology alone, rather than to the use of the technology.
The priority given by cancer network managers to collection of data by services, rather than to the use of data for management, reflected the priorities of central government, which had set targets for completeness (especially for waiting times) rather than supporting networks in the more complex role of understanding and interpreting available data.
It is for this reason that our research did not specify a probability of high-risk behaviour being reduced, but rather resorted to the use of threshold analysis which specified the number of cases needing to be averted for the BBBS-M program to break even.
The White House issued a statement on Sunday that said the United States strongly condemned violence that had occurred in Bahrain and Yemen, and added, "We urge the government of Bahrain to pursue a peaceful and meaningful dialogue with the opposition rather than resorting to the use of force".
Third, participants in our focus groups helped clarify what initially appeared to be a rather passive approach to the use of prayer during difficult times.
The purpose of this paper is to identify and explain a rather large impediment to the use of mixed method research designs that begin with survey data.
The point I agree with -- and the one made more directly by Nate Silver -- was not to imply that the 5 point margin was outside the margin of error, but rather to object to the use of the phrase "statistical tie" to describe a difference that is not quite large enough to attain statistical significance.
Florida's ill-conceived rejection of several hundred years of common-law precedent — the duty to retreat safely rather than to resort to the use of deadly force — has been revealed for its sheer idiocy.
The correlation is rather stable and robust to the use of several techniques, to the introduction of alternative control variables and to the consideration of different subsamples.
