The authors thank the participating patients, the multidisciplinary stroke team at Medisin 2, Østfold Hospital Trust, Moss, and Leiv Sandvik for assisting us in use of statistical methods.
The raw survey data permit the use of statistical methods to explain and predict how individuals vote.
From grammar school he went to Cambridge, becoming an academic geographer just as the discipline began making greater use of statistical methods.
Statistical quality control refers to the use of statistical methods in the monitoring and maintaining of the quality of products and services.
For this purpose, several approaches make use of statistical methods or machine learning algorithms.
Appropriate use of statistical methods is a critical aspect of all clinical research, including randomized controlled trials.
Adanson also introduced the use of statistical methods in botanical classification and studied electricity in torpedo fish and regeneration of limbs and heads in frogs and snails.
Even in observational sciences, such as epidemiology, which routinely make heavy use of statistical methods, expertise is focused on accounting for the subtle workings of different kinds of systematic error (bias) that can affect comparisons between groups of people.
The contributors represent a variety of fields, including development economics, macroeconomics, operations research, and management, econometrics — the use of statistical methods in the study of economic data and questions — as well as political science.
As Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems Inc., put it in a recent television interview, "If your life depended on the measurement of a single ballot, would you prefer it be read by a machine, or examined carefully by three different human beings?" Finally, I come to the question of the use of statistical methods to try to untangle the uncertainties.
