Sentences with phrase «parameter estimates of»

Parameter estimates of the indirect effect were based on 5000 bootstrap samples.

If the outcome did not have a normal distribution, then the parameter estimates of the covariance matrix were computed with robust statistics.

(3) If you fit a line and then use the parameter estimates of that line as input into other analysis (as was done in our sample paper, referenced below), your results will be too certain.

Parameter Estimates of the Effect of MATCH Teacher Coaching on Measures of Teacher Effectiveness

Parameter Estimates of the Difference in Demographic Characteristics of Attritors Across Treatment and Control Groups.

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Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

This means a policy approach that responds appropriately to important factors beyond the two parameters of the Taylor Rule — the output gap estimate and the rate of inflation.

(132,000 / 1,040,000) * 100 = 12.69 % return Estimated Return: $ 132,000 It's critical to note that there is a provision in the XBT futures contract, stipulating that the Final Settlement Value might not be the Gemini Exchange Auction price if it falls outside of Gemini's parameters or «the normal settlement procedure can not be utilized due to a trading disruption or other unusual circumstance.»

This means that the degree of consciousness attained by living creatures (from the moment, naturally, when it becomes discernible) may be used as a parameter to estimate the direction and speed of Evolution (that is to say, of the Cosmic Coiling) in terms of absolute values.

We therefore performed each simulation 2,000 times, drawing key parameters at random from triangular distributions covering the range of estimates available in the literature associating breastfeeding with maternal health outcomes, centered on the point estimate provided in the literature and a distribution width of four standard errors.

He calculated the parameters of the normal price range for products traded between countries, and estimated the amount of capital shifted by trades that were outside that normal price range.

Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey held a press conference today to outline the broad parameters of several transportation proposals, without providing any details, cost estimates or funding sources.

«eXTP will get good estimates of the radii of a few neutron stars, but really mapping out the parameter space nature provides will require STROBE - X,» says team member Thomas Maccarone of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Transmissibility is generally estimated through the parameter known as the basic reproductive number, R0, which is the average number of secondary cases generated by one typically infectious individual in an otherwise susceptible population.

«I think there's a future in using geologic evidence to constrain these parameters, and maybe improve our estimate of seismic hazard in the Pacific Northwest.»

Point estimates of population parameters (e.g., mean, correlation coefficient, slope) or comparative measures (e.g., mean difference, odds ratio, hazard ratio) should be accompanied by a measure of uncertainty such as a standard error or a confidence interval.

Alerts issued by earthquake early warning systems, called EEWs, are based on several parameters: the depth and location of the quake's origin, its estimated magnitude and the ground properties, such as the types of soil and rock that seismic waves would travel through.

Where classical statistics requires a direct measurement of each individual parameter, Bayesian statistics allows researchers to base an estimate on a variety of available scientific information.

«Based on the variability of pharmacokinetic parameters and drug clearance, the two Vancomycin nomograms developed to predict therapeutic Vancomycin concentrations in healthy adults did not accurately estimate dosage regimens in older children regardless of weight or age, and therefore should not be used to aid empiric dosing,» said Dr. Jessica Gillon.

For example, data on royalties for licensing drugs may be collected along with other market information (e.g., market sizes, estimated drug price, patent life) and used to develop a ranking system based on a certain set of market parameters.

The study establishes a method for estimating UHI intensities using PRISM — Parameter - elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes Model — climate data, an analytical model that creates gridded estimates by incorporating climatic variables (temperature and precipitation), expert knowledge of climatic events (rain shadows, temperature inversions and coastal regimes) and digital elevation.

While some of these parameters are difficult to estimate, they show that there exists a lower bound to crosstalk with respect to these parameters.

«It is the first time numerical simulations of binary black holes are used directly to estimate the parameters of a binary and, in this paper, it is proved that this can be done to the highest accuracy,» Lousto said.

The Bayesian inference process allows the estimates of each parameter to be updated based on each new measurement, gradually refining the estimates and homing in ever closer to the precise answer, he says.

Although estimates of this parameter, based on observations, are very uncertain, observers generally quote values in the range from 50 to 90 kilometres per second per megaparsec.

By measuring subtle variations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the remnant radiation from the early universe that pervades the sky, WMAP refined the estimated age of the universe (13.7 billion years, give or take), among other key cosmological parameters.

By studying the relationship between CO2 levels and climate change during a warmer period in Earth's history, the scientists have been able to estimate how the climate will respond to increasing levels of carbon dioxide, a parameter known as «climate sensitivity».

The Hubble constant, the current expansion rate of the Universe, is the key parameter for estimating its age.

Importantly, we introduce a variable set's predictivity as a new parameter of interest to estimate, and provide the I - score as a candidate statistic to estimate variable set predictivity.»

«Using the I - score prediction framework allows us to define a novel measure of predictivity based on observed data, which in turn enables assessing variable sets for, preferably high, predictivity,» Lo said, adding that, while intuitively obvious, not enough attention has been paid to the consideration of predictivity as a parameter of interest to estimate.

In the consensus statement endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published in the December Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and Nutrition in Clinical Practice, the two organizations say: «The universal use of a single set of diagnostic parameters will expedite the recognition of pediatric undernutrition, lead to the development of more accurate estimates of its prevalence and incidence, direct interventions and promote improved outcomes.»

We used PET and [11C] raclopride (radioligand that binds to D2 / D3 receptors not occupied by DA) to assess the effects of methylphenidate (MP) on the nondisplaceable binding potential [BPND; ratio of the distribution volume (DV) in striatum to that in cerebellum], which is the most frequent model parameter used to estimate DA changes (27), in 24 healthy controls and 24 marijuana abusers.

Coalescence - based modeling of demographic parameters estimate that the first domesticated rice population to split off from O. rufipogon was O. sativa ssp.

Ultimately, better information on fluid volumes, flow parameters, and subsurface pressures in the region will provide more accurate estimates of the fluid pressure along this fault.

Your solution should detail your approach and reasoning to solve the problem, as well as your best estimates of the above parameters.

Where (equilibrium / effective) climate sensitivity (S) is the only parameter being estimated, and the estimation method works directly from the observed variables (e.g., by regression, as in Forster and Gregory, 2006, or mean estimation, as in Gregory et al, 2002) over the instrumental period, then the JP for S will be almost of the form 1 / S ^ 2.

The study provided a comparison of core - measured and GPR - estimated root parameters depicting the most significant relations for wheat cultivars, studied in Amarillo and Uvalde, and sugarcane cultivars, studied in Weslaco.

The parameters she measured during her research provided a basis for estimating the age of our galaxy and for improving our understanding of its evolution.

[11] Asteroseismic analyses that incorporate the tight observational constraints on the stellar parameters for α Cen A and / or B have yielded age estimates of 7000484999999999999 ♠ 4.85 ± 0.5 Gyr, [7] 7000500000000000000 ♠ 5.0 ± 0.5 Gyr, [27] 5.2 — 7.1 Gyr, [28] 6.4 Gyr, [29] and 7000652000000000000 ♠ 6.52 ± 0.3 Gyr.

Finnish Meteorological Institute has been doing estimates of two essential sea ice parameters — namely, sea ice concentration (SIC) and sea ice thickness (SIT)-- for the Bohai Sea using a combination of a thermodynamic sea ice model and Earth observation (EO) data from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and microwave radiometer.

Rather, they tested a range of potential values for key parameters of their model and retained those consistent with the paleo - sea level estimates, but they did not explore the full space of possible values within their ranges.

However, we have so little data on the world outside our solar system that estimating the parameters of this formula accurately is next to impossible.

For each star, we present estimates and uncertainties of mass, age, radius, luminosity, core hydrogen abundance, surface helium abundance, surface gravity, initial helium abundance, and initial metallicity as well as estimates of their evolutionary model parameters of mixing length, overshooting coefficient, and diffusion multiplication factor.

New paper mixing «climate feedback parameter» with climate sensitivity... «climate feedback parameter was estimated to 5.5 ± 0.6 W m − 2 K − 1» «Another issue to be considered in future work should be that the large value of the climate feedback parameter according to this work disagrees with much of the literature on climate sensitivity (Knutti and Hegerl, 2008; Randall et al., 2007; Huber et al., 2011).

We estimated the neutral mutation parameter (4Neμ for autosomal loci and 3Neμ for X-linked loci), where Ne is the effective population size and μ is the mutation rate per site per generation, using two estimators: Watterson's θw [67], the proportion of segregating sites in a sample, and π [68], the average number of pairwise differences per sequence in a sample.

The APOGEE red - clump (APOGEE - RC) catalog contains photometry from 2MASS, reddening estimates, distances, line - of - sight velocities, stellar parameters and elemental abundances determined from the high - resolution APOGEE spectra, and matches to major proper motion catalogs.

We therefore used this information for estimating annual adult sex ratios, but did not use it to estimate additional population parameters due to further fragmentation of the small sample size.

We find that our estimates and their associated uncertainties are comparable to the results of other methods, but with the additional benefit of being able to explore many more stellar parameters while using much less computation time.

Using Mg / Ca paleothermometry from the planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber from the past 500 k.y. at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 871 in the western Pacific warm pool, we estimate the tropical Pacific climate sensitivity parameter (λ) to be 0.94 — 1.06 °C (W m − 2) − 1, higher than that predicted by model simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum or by models of doubled greenhouse gas concentration forcing.

A number of subsequent publications qualitatively describe parameter values that allow models to reproduce features of observed changes, but without directly estimating a climate sensitivity probability density function (PDF).