Sentences with phrase «aggregate measure for»

RBC's aggregate measure for housing affordability in Canada rose by 1.2 percentage points in the second quarter to 42.8 per cent, the biggest quarterly increase in six years.

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To simplify - actually oversimplifying some - investors in the stock market in the aggregate try to measure the near term outlook for the profitability of the companies in which they trade.

Goldberg constructs several industry - specific exchange rate indexes for the United States and analyzes the extent to which each index moves with, or diverges from, aggregate economywide measures.

Aggregate housing affordability measure for Toronto hit its most stressed level in a quarter century

He measures daily aggregate unscheduled firm - specific news sentiment as an average of scores calculated by the RavenPack news analysis tool for articles with headlines specifying S&P 500 stocks published for the first time that day on the Dow Jones news wire and in the Wall Street Journal.

Based on initial tests, he constructs aggregate metrics for overvaluation (averaging seven of the overvaluation indicators) and uncertainty (averaging six of the uncertainty measures) for subsequent tests.

The current valuation of the S&P 500 is lofty by almost any measure, both for the aggregate market as well as the median stock: (1) The P / E ratio; (2) the current P / E expansion cycle; (3) EV / Sales; (4) EV / EBITDA; (5) Free Cash Flow yield; (6) Price / Book as well as the ROE and P / B relationship; and compared with the levels of (6) inflation; (7) nominal 10 - year Treasury yields; and (8) real interest rates.

The Altimeter displays a real - time representation of developing balance and imbalance areas by measuring volume - at - price, a statistical method for aggregating trading data.

The outcomes were measured by a global hyperactivity aggregate (GHA), scores based on parent and teacher observations, and for 8 and 9 year olds, a computerized attention test.

Tubi TV may share the information collected from or about you in aggregated or non-personally identifiable forms with advertisers and service providers that perform advertising - related services for us and our business partners in order to tailor advertisements, measure advertising effectiveness, and enable other enhancements.

At best, they track aggregate measures such as overall proficiency and graduation rates, which can hide the consequences for the specific schools, or grades or subjects actually affected by their initiatives.

By following these two steps, we were able to aggregate all available scores for each country into measures of average cognitive skill levels for each country.

Economists Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann concluded that the two tests measure «a common dimension of skills,» and that the scores can be aggregated to form a single national - level indicator of cognitive ability predicting economic growth.6 Psychologist Heiner Rindermann referred to that common dimension as a «g - factor,» standing for general intelligence.

Results of a regression analysis indicate that neither LCE alone, LSE alone, or an aggregate efficacy measure account for significant variation in the three - year mean student achievement change score.

As districts grapple with implementing statutory requirements for annual evaluation, a common pain point has been the use of student growth and assessment data, including properly understanding what the legislation requires, which measures to use, how to aggregate growth measures for teachers and administrators, and reliably scoring for 25 % of an effectiveness rating.

Results of a standard regression analysis show that our aggregate measure of district leadership (using the adjusted R) explains 8 % of the variation in LSE, half of which is accounted for by Managing the instructional program; it also explains 40 % of the variation in LCE, of which significant contributions are made by Redesigning the organization (9 %) and Managing the instructional program (4 %).

In 2013, BART's composite performance index (a measure of how all students are progressing in the school) in both English and math was higher than the state's: in aggregate, for special education students and for low - income students.

If there are large discrepancies between the aggregate performances of students on different measures that are not explained by differences in the skills and content they are measuring, this is a flag for further examination of how the assessments are being designed or scored.

Although accountability reporting systems can be used to hold institutions responsible for outcomes, given the aggregate nature of their reported measures, they do not provide actionable data to assess individual student progress toward college and career readiness and success.

Rather they serve less needy children and when adjusting school aggregate performance measures for the children they serve, they achieve no better current outcomes on average than the schools they are slated to take over... The assumption that charter takeover can solve the ills of certain district schools is specious at best.»

The recommendation is based on aggregate evaluation data generated during the application process, considering the following key elements: (1) the quality of the proposed program as measured against the criteria contained in the charter school application; (2) the substantive issues surrounding the overall feasibility and reasonableness of the application in terms of the likelihood of the opening and operation of a successful, high quality public school; (3) the degree of public support for the proposed school; and (4) the CSDE's recommendation that the SBE give preference to the applicant due to its commitment to: (a) serving students who receive free or reduced price lunch; (b) partnering with FamilyUrban Schools of Excellence, Inc., an organization with a record of operating high - quality public schools in Connecticut; (c) serving students from the Dixwell / Newhallville community, an underserved, high - need area of New Haven; and (d) operating in New Haven, a Priority School District.

On the other hand, the broad U.S. bond market, as measured by the S&P U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, while returning a respectable 3.3 %, failed to keep pace with the rise in cost of future income for any respective target years.

The federal exemption gives you a $ 12,625 aggregate value on household goods, jewelry up to $ 1,600, health aids, wrongful death recovery for a person you depended on for support, and a personal injury judgment up to $ 23,675 with the exception of pain and suffering or pecuniary loss that can't really be measured in money, such as loss of enjoyment.

Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate Index provides a measure of the performance of the U.S. investment grade bonds market, which includes investment grade U.S. Government bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, mortgage pass - through securities and asset - backed securities that are publicly offered for sale in the United States.

Our findings are robust for both factors and smart beta strategies across horizons out to five years, using both a simple price - to - book ratio and an aggregate valuation measure, in U.S., developed ex U.S., and emerging markets.

Almost all of the factors and smart beta strategies exhibit a negative relationship between starting valuation and subsequent performance whether we use the aggregate measure or P / B to define relative valuation.9 Out of 192 tests shown here, not a single test has the «wrong» sign: in every case, the cheaper the factor or strategy gets, relative to its historical average, the more likely it is to deliver positive performance.10 For most factors and strategies (two - thirds of the 192 tests) the relationship holds with statistical significance for horizons ranging from one month to five years and using both valuation measures (44 % of these results are significant at the 1 % leveFor most factors and strategies (two - thirds of the 192 tests) the relationship holds with statistical significance for horizons ranging from one month to five years and using both valuation measures (44 % of these results are significant at the 1 % levefor horizons ranging from one month to five years and using both valuation measures (44 % of these results are significant at the 1 % level).

When relative valuation is gauged using the aggregate measure (reported in the right-most column of Tables 1 and 2 for both aggregate and P / B valuations), we find that the cheapest stocks based on B / P are no longer cheap.

We also believe that for an index, or almost any general aggregate for that matter, corporate fundamentals can be measured by accounting earnings and accounting net asset value per share, i.e., book value.

And the bond market's performance, as measured by the Bloomberg Barclay's U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, was positive for the quarter with a flatter yield curve and compressed spreads.

The new budget measure proposes to reduce the business limit for CCPCs with over $ 50,000 of «adjusted aggregate investment income» in a year, and to reduce the business limit to zero, on a straight - line basis, once $ 150,000 of adjusted aggregate investment income is earned in a year.

The Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, as measured by the iShares Core U.S. Bond Market ETF (AGG) which aims to track the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, has bounced around this year - to - date, with little reward for greater volatility: the index -LSB-...]

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the «Index») is designed to measure the performance of the U.S. dollar denominated investment grade bond market, which includes investment grade (must be Baa3 / BBB - or higher using the middle rating of Moody's Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's Financial Services, LLC, and Fitch Inc.) government bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, mortgage pass through securities, commercial mortgage backed securities and other asset backed securities that are publicly for sale in the United States.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index provides a measure of the performance of the U.S. dollar denominated investment grade bond market, which includes investment grade (must be Baa3 / BBB - or higher using the middle rating of Moody's Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Inc.) government bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, mortgage pass through securities, commercial mortgage backed securities and asset backed securities that are publicly for sale in the United States.

As shown in Exhibit 2, the S&P Real Assets Index has provided relatively strong inflation protection, with an inflation beta of 4.46, as measured by monthly and year - over-year returns of the index and the CPI, compared with 2.4 for the S&P 500 ® and the negligible inflation protection of the S&P U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Our data measures investor behaviour in aggregate, so the general conclusions we draw from it won't necessarily be true for every fund.

Azevedo and her colleagues, for instance, altered a quote from our Op - Ed to suggest that we had argued that energy efficiency measures would universally and in the aggregate result in higher global energy demand.

ACC's Global CPRI measures the production volume of the chemical industry for 33 key nations, sub-regions, and regions, all aggregated to the world total.

Economics can measure and aggregate human wellbeing, but Sections 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 explain that wellbeing may be only one of several criteria for choosing among alternative mitigation policies.

Measures of aggregate impacts include, for example, the total number of people affected, or the total economic costs.

It's only useful for doing what it was original designed to do: Measure the aggregate production and consumption of a nation — which also happens to be a useful measurement of ecological throughput, the relative amount of resources used, given that despite hopeful claims that economic growth can be decoupled from growth in resource consumption and energy usage, this has historically and currently not been the case, and is unlikely to ever fully or even largely be the case.

Analysis of these measures, both at the individual court level — as well as across the full spectrum of aggregated court data — reveals significant and positive outcomes for each of the metrics.

In addition to being able to create a collection of videos specific to your clients or other audience, there is an added feature: if you have created and posted your own videos to other video sites, Magma aggregates the various tracking statistics for monitoring views, comments and other measures of influence from the various sites.

What's interesting to me is that the survey, which is carried out for the various phone companies in Canada, measured land line only, cell phone only, but not cable of VOIP only, reporting instead on the aggregate cable or VOIP use with and without the use of other phone types.

He is also experienced in the application of the EU State Aid rules to fiscal measures, for example in relation to the Aggregates Levy introduced by the Finance Act 2001 (See British Aggregates Association v EU Commission).

Scores on single - item measures denoted the percentage of audited street segments within a buffer with that particular attribute, while scores on multiple - item measures represented the percentage of the maximum obtainable score averaged across audited street segments within a buffer.23 For example, a buffer consisting of three audited street segments with respective scores on «presence of people» (assessed by four items) of 4 (representing 100 % of the maximum obtainable score), 3 (75 %) and 3 (75 %) was assigned an aggregate score of 83.3 % (ie, the sum of 100 %, 75 % and 75 % divided by three).23 In addition, a diversity score was computed for recreational destinations indicating the number of different types of recreational destinations present in a participant's residential buffFor example, a buffer consisting of three audited street segments with respective scores on «presence of people» (assessed by four items) of 4 (representing 100 % of the maximum obtainable score), 3 (75 %) and 3 (75 %) was assigned an aggregate score of 83.3 % (ie, the sum of 100 %, 75 % and 75 % divided by three).23 In addition, a diversity score was computed for recreational destinations indicating the number of different types of recreational destinations present in a participant's residential bufffor recreational destinations indicating the number of different types of recreational destinations present in a participant's residential buffer.

Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were includedfor target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were includedfor studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were includedFor the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36

Using publicly available community - level AEDI data, 62, 63 we ran a two - level multilevel logistic regression model for one aggregate developmental outcome measure (ie, risk of developmental vulnerability; figure 3A) and an example simulation (figure 3B) using a total sample of 181 500, with the proportion of Aboriginal children in each LGA derived from ABS estimates.64, 65 Binomial outcome data were simulated assuming a baseline risk of being vulnerable of 21 % and a community - level random effect based on the actual variation in the published data (figure 3A).

Continuous and dichotomous outcomes for the five AEDI domains and the aggregate AEDI measure will be modelled separately using multilevel linear and logistic regression, respectively.

Contemporary principles of measure development for the assessment of parenting [36, 37] guided the construction of the intrusiveness measure, including aggregating multiple measures of the same parenting behavior from different informants into a single composite measure; focusing on specific behaviors (e.g., «mom gave me help in putting on or taking off clothes») rather than vague concepts (e.g., «mom invades my privacy»); focusing on a short, specific time - frame; using items that are relevant to the age - group being studied; and including observational methods.

We conducted a quantitative meta - analysis of studies published between 1998 and 2008 on academic achievement, behavioral functioning, and EF with the aim of providing aggregated measures of effect size for these outcome domains.