Sentence examples for tendency statistics from inspiring English sources

As pointed out by Feingold (1992), the success of meta-analysis at summarising research findings, accumulating effect sizes from different surveys or studies, leads to attention being focused on the central tendency statistics.

Although effect sizes have often been used on central tendency statistics only, Hedges and Friedman (1993) have shown that they could also be used to compare the magnitude of the gender difference at different portions of the score distribution.

In their analysis, the authors discuss the risk, from a policy perspective, of generalizing results based on central tendency statistics about gender disparities to the whole distribution of performances.

This study has also shown that reporting gender differences from central tendency statistics only is misleading, because gender differences at the extreme tails of the distribution can be quite different from what is observed with central tendency indices.

In reading, while females' higher performance is already noticeable from the central tendency statistics, examining the lower tail of the distribution shows that the high percentage of low-performing boys is far more of an issue than the relative lack of highly proficient male readers.

Although Hedges and Friedman (1993) have shown that meta-analysis could be used to accumulate results in all facets of the scores' distribution, it has to be recognised that many authors have been more interested in the central tendency statistics and that the gender differences in variation and at the extreme tails of the distribution have not received the same amount of attention.

Furthermore, most of the existing metrics, such as clustering tendency in statistics and cluster-ability in data mining, only individually evaluate data characteristics without considering prognostic modeling.

The high-level description of adaptive systems in this paper should be thought of as the analogue of "central tendency" in statistics.

Of the former, David (himself the child of refugees) suggests "governementalitis", the tendency to see statistics rather than human beings.

These are modest figures ac cording to some American ob servers, who say that the mission has a tendency to provide statistics that minimize both the damage cf the war and what the Vietnamese have suf fered when those cannot be attributed solely to the Com munists.

Alternative courses of action are often rejected for the sake of efficiency, driven by a tendency, common in statistics and information, to emphasize crime and deviant behavior (Beck 1986; Bauman 1999 , 2002.