# Comparisons of mean squares, along with F-tests ... allow testing of a nested sequence of models.

Comparisons have been made between the annunciation narrative in Luke's Gospel with the Dead Sea scrolls manuscript Q4Q246:

Comparisons with Homer can be unflattering.

Comparisons with Homer, a native Ionian, can be unflattering.

# Comparisons of the agenda of the news and entertainment media with agendas of political candidates or other activists.

Comparisons with stone structures on Tuamotu atolls show that a population of between 100 and 200 natives could have produced all of the Malden structures.

Comparisons of nova-based distance estimates to various nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters with those done with Cepheid variable stars have shown them to be of comparable accuracy.

Comparisons with the Klemm collection of Egyptian rock samples showed a close resemblance to rock from a small granodiorite quarry at Gebel Tingar on the west bank of the Nile, west of Elephantine in the region of Aswan ; the pink vein is typical of granodiorite from this region.

Comparisons with their closest free living cyanobacteria of the genus Synechococcus ( having a genome size of 3Mb with 3300 genes ) revealed that chromatophores underwent a drastic genome shrinkage.

Comparisons with the Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels ( gepei ’ er ( 戈培尔 )) also spread.

Comparisons can also be drawn with the Mesopotamian monster Tiamat and its slaying by Babylonian chief god Marduk.

Comparisons have also been made with the name of Zemelo & Žemelė, the Phrygian and Lithuanian goddess of the earth, and with the Lithuanian chthonic god Žemeliūkštis.

Comparisons with descendants of the princely family proved that the blood examined could not possibly stem from the hereditary prince of Baden.

Comparisons were made with Goebbels, press co-operation was swiftly withdrawn, politicians protested, and despite agreements to modify the regulation, in November he was obliged to resign the post.

Comparisons of figures in affine geometry are made with dilations which are mappings comprising the affine group A.

Comparisons between original scientific reports and derivative science journalism and popular science typically reveal at least some level of distortion and oversimplification which can often be quite dramatic, even with politically neutral scientific topics.

* Comparisons of Leir with Lear as well as the full texts of both

Comparisons between denominational churches must be approached with caution.

Comparisons with the Bank of Finland — the equivalent of the Central Bank of Ireland — which has a much more complex banking system to safeguard, show it halved its staff since the introduction of the Euro to 650.

Comparisons could be drawn with the reformists within the Sarkozy government in France, the moderate wing of the US Republican Party or David Cameron's Conservatives in the United Kingdom.

Comparisons have been drawn between them and East London band Shut Up and Dance, with both bands evolving in the early 1990s as a rapprochement between the breakbeat-driven African-diasporic musical structures of hip-hop and reggae, and the dark, European reconstruction of the techno sound popularised by the likes of Joey Beltram, CJ Bolland and Mundo Muzique.

Comparisons of self-hypnosis with more traditional ' hetero -' hypnosis show that they are highly correlated.

Comparisons between the two cases were made.

Comparisons were made when speculating about Victoria's future potential.

Comparisons were drawn to Justin Timberlake, who did not return to band ' N Sync after his breakthrough debut solo album, Justified.

Comparisons were being made to David Bowie, though Suede sounded nothing quite like anybody else around at the time, and soon they fell upon what critics quickly deemed was a new movement.

Comparisons were made between the case and that of Mehdi Norowzian, a British director who complained about Diageo's, the drinks conglomerate, for allegedly plagiarising his work in their 1994 Anticipation campaign for Guinness-brand stout.

Comparisons were made in terms of GDP, inflation, unemployment, agricultural imports and exports, trade volume, manufactured goods, and merchandise.

Comparisons were immediately made to a scene in Bad News Bears in which the team received a donation from " Bo-Peeps Gentlemen's Club " and is required to put the logo of the strip club on their uniforms.

Comparisons with the Volkswagen van of the early 1960s were inevitable.

Comparisons have been made between the Irminsul and the Jupiter Columns that were erected along the Rhine in Germania around CE 2 and 3.

Comparisons between a stack of D3-branes in type IIB string theory and the extremal charged 3-brane metric background were carried out by Klebanov and later sharpened by Maldacena.

Comparisons were drawn between Willy Wonka and musician Michael Jackson.

Comparisons between FOCAL and BASIC were inevitable since both languages were common on smallish computers of the same era.

Comparisons with The Cure were made in recognition of Dale's ability to write an album with great, straightforward pop songs as well as more moody and searing numbers.

Comparisons between the Victor and its broadly similar Rüsselsheim built cousin were inevitable.

Comparisons between countries were common — for example between East Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States or their citizens.

Comparisons of the game to its forerunner ( Doom ) and to other similar games of the day were also often unfavorable to Chex Quest, which was pejoratively labeled a " Doom clone ," and the game was regarded as an imitation with little to no innovation.

" Comparisons were also made to Tim Burton's eponymous film about the director, Ed Wood.

Comparisons of images balanced by diagonal transforms in a number of different RGB spaces have identified several such spaces that work better than others, and better than camera or monitor spaces, for chromatic adaptation, as measured by several color appearance models ; the systems that performed statistically as well as the best on the majority of the image test sets used were the " Sharp ", " Bradford ", " CMCCAT ", and " ROMM " spaces.

Comparisons were later made to the fire aboard the CSL passenger ship Quebec, on which the fire was proven to have been deliberately set in a linen closet on August 14, 1950.

Comparisons with modern figures are extremely difficult ; food items were comparatively cheap, but luxury goods and fabrics were very expensive.