(n.) A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.
(n.) A statistician.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(2) No statistically significant difference was found between sodium hyaluronate and hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC).
(3) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(4) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(5) Altogether 47 variables were investigated, and of these 34 gave results which were statistically significant.
(6) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(7) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
(8) Statistically significant increases of triglycerides occurred under the combined preparations, of phospholipids under Ovosiston and Deposiston and of the beta-lipoproteins under Ovosiston and Gravistat.
(9) Moreover, the data showed for the first time that DNA synthesis in the bone marrow and spleen and colon were markedly statistically significantly stimulated at specific times after treatment.
(10) = 19) with a very low, but statistically significant, correlation with the AUC, r = 0.35 (p less than 0.05), thus demonstrating a very great individual variation in sensitivity to cimetidine.
(11) There were no statistically significant increases in ABR thresholds for irradiated ears vs. control ears.
(12) Differences between N1 and N2 disease were not statistically significant.
(13) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(14) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(15) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(16) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(17) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
(18) The results are analysed statistically and summarized in graphs.
(19) Mononuclear phagocytic cells from patients with either principal form of leprosy functioned similarly to normal monocytes in phagocytosis while their fungicidal activity for C. pseudotropicalis was statistically significantly altered and was more evident in the lepromatous than in the tuberculoid type.
(20) Although statistical analysis did not show dramatic changes in all these parameters, some individual extreme values were substantially altered.
Statistician
Definition:
(n.) One versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 12.23pm BST 12.04pm BST As Mariano Rajoy and François Hollande prepare to reveal their austerity budgets (Spain goes on Thursday and France on Friday), they might be forgiven for casting an envious eye towards Australia where government statisticians revealed that the country is A$325bn (£200bn) better off than they'd thought.
(2) If the investigator has any doubts about the design or the manner in which the data will be analyzed, a statistician should be consulted before the experiment is conducted.
(3) A difficult computation in human genetics was simplified by a matrix devised by a non-genetical statistician, and readily adapted to newly emerging computer-processing.
(4) Community-based researchers often need the special expertise of university statisticians, epidemiologists, and research methodologists, and the enthusiasm of fellow researchers.
(5) Some statisticians contend that the experimentwise Type I error rate is the most important attribute of multiple comparison procedures to be used for making all possible pairwise comparisons among treatment means after an analysis of variance.
(6) While that is higher than the 1.6% decline that statisticians had previously pencilled in, it will have no impact on an initial estimate for first quarter GDP growth of 0.3% – half the pace in the previous three months .
(7) This report was prepared by a group of British and American statisticians, but it is intended for people without any statistical expertise.
(8) The statisticians are still, however, slightly cautious about declaring it a definite trend, saying the figures cover two overlapping time periods.
(9) A businessman asked a statistician his chances of being on a plane with a bomb on it ( Letters , 10 August).
(10) Its introduction hasn't resulted in additional increase in the staff of medical statisticians.
(11) While statisticians warned that some of the data may be skewed by factors such as women entering occupations where there is less of a culture of bonus payments, the discrepancies in the sizes of awards do appear to be aggravating Britain's pay gap, which the government says is closing but still sees full-time male employees earn 10% more than women.
(12) The Obama digital team has also been recruiting statisticians, predictive modellers, data mining experts , and software engineers from university job fairs, like Stanford's, since early last summer.
(13) 11.29am GMT A nice little stat from Britain's self-proclaimed leading football statistician Duncan Alexander here.
(14) Communication between statisticians and toxicologists which allow the implementation of such analyses can improve the interpretation of data resulting from repeated measures study designs.
(15) Again, responses were broken down into areas, and initials of children and their date of birth were compared to prevent double counting, according to Gareth Edwards, the report's statistician.
(16) He used a set of figures purporting to show high weekend death-rates that have since been resoundingly rubbished by health statisticians.
(17) A National Academy of Sciences panel is studying how to modernize crime statistics, new cooperation has been detected between FBI statisticians and BJS statisticians – and then there was that eyebrow-raising speech at Georgetown by Comey, the FBI director.
(18) It has a full-time staff of 38 traffic engineers, traffic education experts, statisticians, lawyers, traffic psychologists and information specialists.
(19) In cooperation with epidemiologists and statisticians, several methods of statistic analysis of the diagnostic efficacy of the procedures such as sensitivity and specificity evaluation, ROC analysis, disease prevalence, predictive value of tests, etc... have been developed.
(20) The subjects were randomized into two groups according to a code list known only by the manufacturer and the statistician.