Sentence examples for statistical trick from inspiring English sources

It was also a verbal and statistical trick, put over by economists who simply "redefined the luxuries of yesterday".

This is a statistical trick that allows complicated data such as those from magnetoencephalography to be reduced to a small number of components whose co-ordinates can then be plotted on a standard graph.

That implied that he had found some sign that the rat was thinking about the task before performing it.To work out which part of the electrical activity of the different cells was carrying this "thought", he first applied a statistical trick called principal-component analysis to it, to separate the signal from the noise.

But similar to the success of charter schools in the city, it is merely a statistical trick.

This statistical trick provides false evidence to policymakers that the Norcross charter school experiment is succeeding and should receive more money for their schools.

Much has been written about the e-mail hacked from Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, that mentions using a statistical "trick" to "hide the decline".

Their favourite activity is to ask each other questions about practical research problems, from DNA-sequencing techniques to statistical tricks.

Although the City of Sydney uses some statistical tricks to say the lockouts are working, the truth can be seen in the data.

In a statement that Ryan issued in December, 2009, he accused certain scientists who did recognize the effect of using "statistical tricks to distort their findings and intentionally mislead the public on the issue of climate change".

After doing some statistical tricks to eliminate the bias, Mr Wang calculated that the disposable income of China's households was 9.3 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) higher than the official 2008 figure of 14 trillion yuan.

They were honoured alongside authors of research into why you spill coffee when walking around with a cup, how brain scans can detect brain activity anywhere (even in dead fish) if you use the right statistical tricks, and why leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller.