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- noun Plural form of
pentad .
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Examples
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Which is why forming the data into pentads increases the sample error, because it reduces N by a factor of five.
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Which is why forming the data into pentads increases the sample error, because it reduces N by a factor of five.
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The question is: why did she analyze her data this way, in pentads?
USCCSP: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere « Climate Audit 2006
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Re 509, bender, you are right about the effects of summing by pentads on trendless data, it makes no difference.
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Summing by pentads thus increases the inter-observation first-order autocorrelation – which is what a trend is.
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If it is missing, it would affect both an annualized graph and the pentad graph, so again how is it *the use of pentads as such* is hiding something?
USCCSP: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere « Climate Audit 2006
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If you plot the data based on “pentads”, the result is going to look less noisy than if you used the annual counts.
USCCSP: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere « Climate Audit 2006
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If you compute your regression trend line based on “pentads”, the result is going to look more significant than if you used the annual counts.
USCCSP: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere « Climate Audit 2006
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Which is why forming the data into pentads increases the sample error, because it reduces N by a factor of five.
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Instead, they cast their important commands and laws into the form of pentads and decalogues.
The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament Charles Foster Kent 1896
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