Down went the lights, up came the titles, and there was the cause of all the fuss: a flood of statistics, informing us that the late Mr. Holmes, as preëminent in the trouser department as his namesake Sherlock had been in the cerebellum, was the leading pornographic star of his time.
Before ascending the greasy pole of Murdoch's empire she had been editor of The News of the World, and later The Sun. (The tabloid Sun's primary distinction is a daily feature on Page 3 of young women with large bosoms, with attendant statistics informing readers of their relative cup size -- B, C, D, or F).
Summary statistics were calculated for each simulated data set and compared to values from the observed data; simulations with summary statistics that best approximated the observed summary statistics informed the posterior distributions for each parameter and formed the basis for parameter inference.
Finally, results of mass balances ideally should be communicated along with statistics informing on the confidence of the analyses performed.
The infit statistics are more sensitive to irregular response patterns according to the person's ability level, whereas the outfit statistics informs about the degree of the item fit [ 23].
We considered a definition for the children age class up to 15 or 18 years old, justified by the available data and statistics, however the approach is transparent to this choice and analogous results to the ones presented can be reached by informing the model with a different definition of classes, as long as statistics informing the groups-specific parameters α, ε, η, and r are available.
Greater attention to harnessing routinely collected data (e.g., hospital information systems and police crash statistics) to inform policy is also required.
"We constantly monitor drink-drive statistics to inform our campaign.
Can they use statistics to inform a decision?
