Dissection by roads and fragmentation effects by forestry, agriculture, and urbanization explained less but a significant amount of variation.
Even if some of the above guesses turn out to have some bearing on media attention there will still be a significant amount of variation or "newsworthiness" that can't be explained by statistical factors.
Plugging them into a statistical model and running a multiple regression, these factors don't seem to explain a significant amount of variation, even when separating Greater Boston from the rest of the state of Massachusetts.
They uncovered a significant amount of variation between twins, possibly enough to explain why apparently heritable diseases that require the coincidence of several genetic risk-factors do not, in practice, always appear in both twins.
However, when there is a significant amount of variation in particulate concentrations across an urban area, the use of central sites may result in exposure misclassification that induces error in long-term cohort epidemiological study designs.
With this goal in mind, we find that our test shares a small amount of variance with a novel object recognition measure, tentatively suggesting that a small but significant amount of variation in VCRT performance may be accounted for by a domain-general recognition ability.
States are, of course, very big causing a significant amount of variation to be hidden away.
Notice that there is a significant amount of variation between months, but that warm temperature records, and especially record high nighttime temperatures, outnumber the cold temperature records.
Although Egyptians as a whole consider themselves to be highly religious, there remains a significant amount of variation in individuals' particular political and social beliefs.
This variable explained a significant amount of variation among studies (F2, 24 = 3.63, P = 0.042).
A significant amount of variation in lateral body shape was due to bending of the fish during formalin fixation.
