The studies also ran up against many methodological challenges, the biggest of which centered on the old statistical saying, " Correlation does not equal causation" .

这些研究还遇到了许方法论上的挑战，其中最大的挑战集中在古老的统学说法上，即" 相关性并不等于因果关系" 。

" The creation of the 'statistics board' was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science's overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish."

“对科学研究领域的统学应用和数据分析的广泛关注，促使了‘数据校对编辑委员会的成立’，该委员会成立也是全面提高我们出版的研究可再生性努力的一部分。”

Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college?

为什么你应该考虑在大学的时候上一门人口统学方面的课程？

An unwary statistician might conclude that Indian prices have dropped dramatically.

一个不太谨慎的统学家可能会得出结论，印度的物价已大幅下跌。

And the book covers less ground than a stats primer ought.

并且本书作为一本统学的初级物，涵盖的内容还是太少。

Critics of sabermetrics, computer statistics, say there's more to the game that can't be measured.

赛伯量学以及算机统学的批判者们认为，比赛中有东西是无法测量统的。

She became the first female fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

她还成为了皇家统学会的第一位女性研究员。

The test results of their pupils – there is no statistically significant differences.

他们教的学生的测试结果——没有统学上的显著差异。

The researchers were unable to assess the statistical significance of differences in actual suicide attempts.

研究人员无法评估实际自杀未遂差异的统学意义。

And these findings were highly statistically significant, highly.

这些发现具有高的统学意义。

We see a big gap in the demography.

“我们看到过人口统学的巨大鸿沟。

There were two reasons, says Tomas Sobotka of the Vienna Institute of Demography.

维也纳人口统学研究所的托马斯? 索博特卡表示，导致这种现象的原因有两个。

The differences were not huge, but they were statistically significant.

虽然差距不算太大，但已经足够具有统学上的意义了。

I'm a Professor of Statistics at the University of Toronto.

我是伦大学的统学教授。

Well, let's take a look at that word statistics or a single statistic.

好吧，我们来看看这个词统学或单一的统数据。

But although these results seemed interesting, and capable of being explained, perhaps the most important thing to mention here is that in statistical terms they were inconclusive.

但尽管这些结果似乎有趣，并且可以解释，或许最重要的是要提到的是，从统学的角度来看，它们并不确定。

" It becomes visible only when we think statistically about an ensemble of similar judgments. Indeed, it then becomes hard to miss, " Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein write in their new book.

“只有当我们从统学的角度考虑一系列相似的判断时，它才会显现出来。事实上，到那时，它会变得难被忽视。”丹尼尔·卡尼曼、奥利维尔·西伯尼和卡斯·桑斯坦在他们的新书中写道。

America's statisticians, like those across the rich world, do not include house prices in inflation metrics: the thinking runs that house purchases are in large part an investment, rather than purely a consumption good.

美国的统学家和其他发达国家的统学家一样，没有将房价纳入通胀指标：人们的想法是，买房在大程度上不是纯粹的消费品，而是一种投资。

One paper by statisticians at America's Bureau of Labour Statistics found that, across a variety of measures including pay, benefits, job security and safety, " many industries within services equal or exceed manufacturing."

美国劳工统局的统学家发表的一篇论文发现，在包括薪酬、福利、工作稳定性和安全在内的各种指标中，“服务业中的许行业等于或超过了制造业”。

You wouldn't expect the effects of indoor plants to be huge — and if they have small effects, from a statistics perspective, you'd need a large number of participants to pick them up.

你不会期望室内植物有大的影响效果，如果它们的影响小，从统学的角度来看，需要大量的参与者才能收集到这种影响。