News tagged with statistics
Europe and America couldn't be more different, right? Not so fast, says historian
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Marshalling data on everything from colon cancer to the accuracy of public clocks, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.
Fear of discrimination saw Paddys and Biddys decline
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2009 |
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The Durham and Northumbria Universities study, both based in the UK, suggests that a fear of prejudice made the Irish immigrants steer clear of giving their children Irish Catholic names, a trend also seen in today's society ...
Heads or tails? It all depends on some key variables
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Everyone knows the flip of a coin is a 50-50 proposition. Only it's not. You can beat the odds. So says a three-person team of Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz researchers. They produced a provocative study that turns conventional ...
Third quarter engineering unemployment data show mixed trends
Oct 07, 2009 |
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The unemployment rate for U.S. electrical and electronics engineers (EEs), which had jumped to a record high in the second quarter, has eased, according to third quarter data just released by the Department of Labor's Bureau ...
Study: Why the best soccer teams don't always win
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study, published in the October edition of the Journal of Applied Statistics, looked at soccer as being an experiment to determine which of two teams is superior, but their analys ...
In 16 states, drug deaths overtake traffic fatals
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In 16 states and counting, drugs now kill more people than auto accidents do, the government said Wednesday.
Google Internet Stats Introduced
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has quietly introduced a Google Internet Stats website, which presents snippets of statistics and insights for a number of focus areas, and allows you to search within the statistics for sp ...
Dying at home: A trend that could make hospitals more efficient
May 19, 2009 |
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Hospitals across Canada are seeking ways to free up beds. University of Alberta researcher Donna Wilson has a suggestion: people should be encouraged to die at home rather than in hospital.
Study shows that HIV antiretroviral treatment should start earlier
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of more than 45,000 people with HIV in Europe and North America suggests that the minimum CD4-cell count threshold for initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) ...
Tech offers relative job security, statistics show
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Despite layoffs at tech stalwarts like Google, IBM, Microsoft and Electronic Arts, the impact of the recession on the tech industry is likely to be far less severe than on other areas of the economy, recent labor statistics ...
Carnegie Mellon engineers create mobile video service
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Carnegie Mellon University engineering faculty, Priya Narasimhan and Rajeev Gandhi, and their students have created a new, unique large-scale mobile wireless video service designed to enhance sports fans' experience at games. ...
Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Mendel solved the logic of inheritance in his monastery garden with no more technology than Darwin had in his garden at Down House. So why couldn't Darwin have done it too? A Journal of Biology article argues that Darwin ...
Body weight linked to children's self-esteem
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- National statistics show one in four children in Canada are obese, yet very little research has been done to find out what effects, if any, being overweight has on their self esteem and well-being.
Just a numbers game? Making sense of health statistics
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Presidential candidates use them to persuade voters, drug companies use them to sell their products, and the media spin them in all kinds of ways, but nobody - candidates, reporters, let alone health consumers - understands ...
Textbook for one of most-taught community college courses available free
Aug 13, 2008 |
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Rice University's Connexions, one of the most-visited online sites for open-educational resources, today announced it is making a popular textbook available free this fall for one of the country's most-attended transfer-level ...
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