Test development can proceed on theoretical or statistical grounds.

The notion of specific feature detectors is questioned on statistical grounds.

So effects there are more worthy of attention than elsewhere, even on purely statistical grounds.

Rejection of "outliers" on statistical grounds that fail to take into account important information that could be derived from "wild" observations.

While never a valid deduction, if such an inference can be made on statistical grounds, it may nonetheless be convincing.

That panel's conclusion, that weather modification was possible, was immediately attacked on statistical grounds.

The next most sensitive is which tests and treatments will be ruled out on statistical grounds.

On statistical grounds, she ought to be safe for another dozen swims, at the very least.

The two sides have almost reached a statistical middle ground; now the question, as one Senator said, "is whether we can give each other the political cover to stand there."

In the previous chapter we saw, on purely statistical grounds, that any particular large mutation is inherently less probable than any particular small mutation.