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- verb statistics To
vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may bepredictive
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Three metrics of large-scale drought (global average soil moisture, contiguous area in drought, and number of drought events shorter than 2 years) are shown to covary with ENSO SST anomalies.
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To be sure, given that large numbers of the moms surveyed also shop at Walmart, motherhood itself seems to covary with both more swing political views and personal economic pressures.
Margie Omero: Walmart Moms: Politically Swing, Economically Anxious Margie Omero 2010
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These questions are neutral, and it could be argued that they covary closely with many kinds of knowledge about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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My understanding (as a non-eduwonk) is that we typically keep stats only on aggregate scores for schools; the idea here would be to consider aptitude separately from achievement and keep more fine-grained data on both, as well as on how they covary.
You Don’t Understand What You Can’t Understand If You Don’t Understand It 2007
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OF COURSE, factors that covary can influence the reconstructions and of course, we have an issue with both CO2 and temp going up at the same time.
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The only answer there is to get lots, lots more data and/or to do experimental studies to determine the exact nature of confounding variables which vary randomly, which covary, etc.
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While many of these seem to covary closely with Northern Hemisphere ice volume, a more direct proxy record of glaciation in the Northern Hemispehre, I think, would be to use benthic delta18O records.
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An experience counts as awareness of x only if the properties of the experience covary with certain of the properties of
Sense-Data Huemer, Michael 2007
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I also think that the radiation not completely covary with the solar cycle, and its effect has i different research proved to be small marginal.
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High activity maybe covary a lot with radiance e.g.
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