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From Radio America
Russian officials say Polish President Lech Kaczynski has
died in a plane
crash in western Russia.
Officials say all 96 people on the plane were killed in the
crash Saturday
(0700 UTC). Earlier reports said 132 people were on the
aircraft.
Polish officials confirmed the president and his wife Maria
were on board.
Passengers also included Poland's army chief, Franciszek
Gagor, Deputy
Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer, Central Bank Governor
Slawomir Skrzypek,
and scores of Polish legislators along with other officials.
The delegation was heading to Russia to commemorate the 70th
anniversary of
the World War Two-era killing of 22,000 Polish officers by
Soviet security
forces at the town of Katyn near Smolensk.
The GCP event was set for 6 hours beginning an hour before
the crash, 06:00 to 12:00 UTC. The result is Chisquare
21725.709 on 21600 df for p = 0.272 and Z = 0.607.
It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny
statistical
effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish signal from
noise. This means that every "success" might be largely
driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect
can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.
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