Standardization
Standardization is a technique used in comparing indicators from two or more populations. The goal of the standardization procedure is to control for compositional differences between ...
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When business executives look for the right way to do things, they can turn to our Founding Fathers. "Business DNA goes back to the founding of our country," said Bob Merz, who wrote the new book "...
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More banks have tightened lending standards on home mortgages, the Federal Reserve said Monday in the latest sign of fallout from a spreading credit crisis.The Fed said that many banks reported tig...
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The Kansas school board, long ridiculed for its resistance to teaching evolution, prepared Tuesday to repeal rules backed by social conservatives and switch to science guidelines that embrace Charl...
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The Army last year again increased the number of its recruits who have prior criminal records by granting them special exceptions.The Pentagon's top personnel official defended the policy, saying i...
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A judge upheld Montana water-quality standards aimed at protecting rivers in the Powder River Basin from pollution caused by coal-bed methane development.The state had adopted the standards after r...
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Gov. Deval Patrick and top lawmakers want to put Massachusetts on the clean energy map by requiring biofuel blends in home heating oil and providing tax incentives for producers of more efficient e...
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The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose new smog reductions nationwide on Thursday in its first recommendation in a decade on one of the nation's most pervasive air pollutants.Th...
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Standardization
Founders Had Standards
