statistical
Example Sentences
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There’s an obvious objection to all this: It sounds as if we’re naively personifying a giant math problem, mistaking statistical patterns for sentience—falling for the oldest anthropomorphic error in the book.
“These numbers have turned into absolute markets of the human condition,” Karabell wrote, “when they are simply statistical descriptions of specific systems.”
From Los Angeles Times
But the report was riddled with methodological issues after the 43-day government shutdown prevented the statistical agency from collecting and processing data.
From Barron's
When these social effects were added to a statistical model, the overall genetic influence on the three newly identified gene microbe links increased by four to eight times.
From Science Daily
Those numbers could have been used in a statistical computation, but they weren’t by themselves a statistical argument.
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