Earnest in tone in comparison to its self-consciously hip and ironic predecessors, Dead Man was thematically expansive and of an often violent and progressively more surreal character.

It constructed a narrative of cultural continuity, set in opposition to the violent disjunctions of Revolutionary France, a comparison common to the period, as expressed in Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: A History and Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

In comparison, 38 % of all racially motivated offenses were of a violent nature.

In comparison to other vampires, the Brujah are especially violent.

*" Blood, rage & history: The world's first terrorists " – an article by Johann Hari in The Independent giving an overview of violent anarchism with a comparison with 21st-century Islamism

The current name of the Gulf appeared at least during the 13th century ( in medieval Latin sinus Leonis, mare Leonis ) and could come from comparison with a lion: it would simply suggest that this part of the sea is as dangerous as a lion because it has very violent, surprising winds that threaten boats ( sailors and fishermen know these dangers very well ).

After three months, relative to the comparison areas, violent crime decreased 23 %.

Differences in definitions of crime and other methodological differences are too big for proper comparison.

A dedicated survey for international comparison: A group of European criminologists started an international victimization study with the sole purpose to generate international comparative crime and victimization data.

Bucharest's crime rate is rather low in comparison to other European capital cities, with the number of total offenses declining by 51 % between 2000 and 2004.

However, countries have applied neoliberal policies at varying levels of intensity ; for example, the OECD ( Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ) has calculated that only 6 % of Swedish workers are beset with wages it considers low, and that Swedish wages are overall lower due to their lack of neoliberal policies John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer ( 2006 ) of the CEPR have analyzed the effects of intensive Anglo-American neoliberal policies in comparison to continental European neoliberalism, concluding " The U. S. economic and social model is associated with substantial levels of social exclusion, including high levels of income inequality, high relative and absolute poverty rates, poor and unequal educational outcomes, poor health outcomes, and high rates of crime and incarceration.

The following table shows East St. Louis's crime rate in six crimes that Morgan Quitno uses for its calculation for " America's most dangerous cities " ranking, in comparison to the national average: Year: 2006 number of crimes per 100, 000.

The following table shows Gastonia's crime rate in 6 crimes that Morgan Quitno uses in their calculations for " America's most dangerous cities " rankings, in comparison to a city of 100, 000 people.

The following table shows Orangeburg's crime rate in 6 crimes that Morgan Quitno uses in its calculations for " America's most dangerous cities " rankings, in comparison to 10, 000 people.

The following table shows North Charleston ’ s crime rate for CY2009 in six crimes that Morgan Quitno uses for their calculation for " America's most dangerous cities " ranking, in comparison to the national average.

By comparison, in the upper portion of Washington Heights, where the 34th Precinct includes Fort George, Hudson Heights and Sherman Creek ( as well as Inwood ), there was only one murder in 2007 ; likewise, above W. 179th Street, crime complaints were down 21. 05 % in 2007 over 2001 ( and down 83. 15 % from 1993 ).

After comparison of Esterhazy's handwriting with that of the bordereau, he became convinced of Esterhazy's guilt of the crime for which Dreyfus had been convicted.

Often this is not possible because crime statistics aggregate equivalent offences in such different ways that make it difficult or impossible to obtain a valid comparison.

In an analysis of the effects of intensive Anglo-American neoliberal policies in comparison to continental European neoliberalism, where unions have remained strong, they concluded " The U. S. economic and social model is associated with substantial levels of social exclusion, including high levels of income inequality, high relative and absolute poverty rates, poor and unequal educational outcomes, poor health outcomes, and high rates of crime and incarceration.

Hence, there is likely to be a causal relationship between relative deprivation and crime, particularly where unemployment is perceived as unjust and hopeless by comparison with the lot of other groups.

While the act of the crime and the punishment are as such not comparable, cultural and temporal customs can provide values for their comparison.

A 2001 comparison of short-term lending rates charged by the Chicago Outfit organized crime syndicate and payday lenders in California revealed that, depending on when a payday loan was paid back by a borrower ( generally 1 – 14 days ), the interest rate charged for a payday loan could be considerably higher than the interest rate of a similar loan made by the organized crime syndicate.

Those who receive fines argue that the " punishment does not fit the crime ", pointing to the size of fines levied for minor parking violations in comparison with fines generally issued for more serious motoring offences or other offences such as shoplifting.

This may explain why crime was well above the national average, apart from robbery which was slightly less in comparison.

Police commanders designed 120 foot patrol areas around these corners, and stratified randomization was used to assign pairs of foot patrols with similar crime rates as either a comparison or a target area.

Consequently, it was viewed as an anomaly for the Home Secretary to enforce harsher conditions on an individual who has not been convicted of any crime, in comparison with an open prisoner who enjoys freedom of association.

Critic and director Jean-Luc Godard regarded the film negatively in comparison to other French crime films of the era, noting in 1986 that " today it can't hold a candle to Touchez pas au grisbi which paved the way for it, let alone Bob le flambeur which it paved the way for.

It was low on action and violence in comparison to previous crime series such as The Sweeney, opting for a more realistic and character-driven approach.

By comparison, prediction in frequentist statistics often involves finding an optimum point estimate of the parameter ( s ) — e. g. by maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori estimation ( MAP ) — and then plugging this estimate into the formula for the distribution of a data point.

By 2000, 65 % of the county labor force was employed as white-collar workers with an increase of 20 points in comparison with 1990 statistics.

::* confidence intervals are more flexible and can be used practically in more situations than credible intervals: one area where credible intervals suffer in comparison is in dealing with non-parametric models ( see non-parametric statistics ).

Attendance figures for Witness events include " Jehovah's Witnesses and associates "; such statistics may be cited for comparison of Witness numbers with membership figures of other religions, but only those sharing in their ministry are counted by Jehovah's Witnesses when reporting their official statistics.

He hints at racial discrimination, as proposed in the McCleskey v. Kemp case, by reciting statistics on America's death row population in comparison with America's population by race ; the numbers are not proportional.

Since statistics did not always provide a comparison between the numbers of households and existing housing units, the housing deficit remained difficult to gauge.

His research interest is centered around sequence alignment algorithms, statistics of sequence comparison and measurement of sequence similarity.

After generating the relevant statistics from published works, he applied his " word spectra " methods to a comparison of the works of William Shakespeare and Sir Francis Bacon.

The identity function is also shown for comparison. In statistics, hypotheses about the value of the population correlation coefficient ρ between variables X and Y can be tested using the Fisher transformation applied to the sample correlation coefficient r.

However, the original definition of an assist did not include such situations, so the comparison of assist statistics across eras is a complex matter.

The chart below provides a comparison of regular season statistics in key categories ( overall rank amongst 32 teams in parentheses ).

The comparison group's statistics aligned approximately with the US national average on the dimensions considered.

The following table offers a side-by-side comparison of a variety of statistics across the MPC product-line.

Studies show that ex-military kids end up pursuing service-related careers in very high numbers: military service, teaching, counseling, police, nursing and foreign service work being highly represented in military brat career statistics ( in comparison to statistics on non-military brat patterns of employment choices ).

The Essays in Political Economy, Theoretical and Applied, which appeared in the same year, contain the essays towards a solution of the gold question, brought up to date and tested by comparison with statistics of prices.

* Review of Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis with a detailed comparison with the statistics provided by Walter Dunn's " Kursk: Hitler's Gamble, 1943 ", George Nipe's " Decision in the Ukraine ", " The Battle of Kursk " by David Glantz and Jonathan House, and " The Battle for Kursk, 1943 " from the Soviet General Staff.

In statistics, Duncan's new multiple range test ( MRT ) is a multiple comparison procedure developed by David B. Duncan in 1955.