Sentences with phrase «are reliable measures»

Merit's Tryouts and Finals (i.e. pre-tests and post-tests) are reliable measures of student knowledge and progress attained.

«While we all wish that was a reliable measure of conservative, experience has taught that it's not,» Broun said in a Wednesday statement.

We also performed qRT - PCR to determine whether the retroviral OCT3 / 4 and KLF4 transgenes were silenced, which has been shown to be a reliable measure for efficient reprogramming of somatic cells into pluripotency [29].

A major critique is that the HBT is not seen as being a reliable measure due to a high error rate.

But are they a reliable measure of students» real abilities and potential?

Second, test scores can be reliable measures of educational achievement.

You say «To accomplish that, one would usually need more than a single measure (even if that were a reliable measure).»

To accomplish that, one would usually need more than a single measure (even if that were a reliable measure).

But another purpose that states built toward was that if they wanted to use PARCC as part of an accountability system, would it be a reliable measure.

Instead, you start with a risk free rate in a currency where you believe that the government bond rate is a reliable measure of the risk free rate (US Treasury Bond, German Euro Bond) and then add to this number the differential inflation rate between the US dollar and the local currency.

The S measurement is a reliable measure that correlates well to the DLS score: it is a simple, rapid method for general practitioners to screen dogs for unaffected hip joints.

But that success is no reliable measure for the depth and complexity of the work they are making, or equally for the work of all those artists who participated in the show.

Since our aim is not so much to produce a definitive analysis as to obtain some idea of the existence and magnitude of the effect, we will examine a variety of possibilities... we may plausibly expect... suggests that the area effect in Figs. 5a and 5b is likely to be underestimated... A potential problem here is that area may not be a reliable measure of cumulus activity... Figs 5c and 5d suggest that a simple linear regression may not be entirely appropriate.»

Popular among employers, the CCAT is a reliable measure of applicants» cognitive aptitude and various factors contributing to performance at work.

The study design is a little «convoluted,» says Dr. Gail Saltz, a New York City psychiatrist and frequent TODAY contributor, adding «I think it's reasonable to question if this is a reliable measure.»

The DCQ appears to be a reliable measure for assessing occupational stress in sewing machine operators.

Given the importance of body awareness to self - objectification research, and the mixed results obtained with various questionnaire measures, we suggest that there is scope for the use of a well - validated physiological method, which has proved to be a reliable measure of body awareness in another area of psychology.

Both groups comprised families with children aged 3 — 16 years, as there is no reliable measure of child behavioural difficulties for children less than 3 years.25

The PSAS, a 10 - item self - report instrument, is a reliable measure (Cronbach's alpha = 0.81)[54] of pregnant women's worry regarding personal health, labor and delivery and baby care, with final scores ranging from 0 to 3.

Not exact matches

The lawsuit describes an employee ranking system that is «not based on valid and reliable performance measures» and favors men and white or Asian employees.

In the interim, neither housing bears nor bulls would seem to be in a position to make conclusive claims on how reliable the measures are.

They are reliable, consistent and well - adjusted, and by all measures the majority have good lives.

As a result, there are no truly reliable measures of future growth.

Among the recurring features of speculative episodes across history is the appearance of «new era» arguments to justify the elevated prices, coupled with arguments that historically reliable measures no longer apply.

Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level of valuations at the beginning of those periods (on reliable measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).

The same is likely to be the case in the present instance, and on historically reliable measures, that shift has already occurred.

Earnings and earnings growth rates are the least reliable of all fundamental measures here, and should not form the basis for evaluating stocks.

Eventually, the final refuge of speculation is to abandon historically reliable measures wholesale, resting faith instead on the advent of some new era in which the old rules simply don't apply.

Put simply, there's no evidence to suggest that historically reliable valuation measures have somehow become irrelevant.

The most reliable measures we identify in market cycles across history are consistent with the expectation of near zero total returns in the S&P 500 Index over the coming decade, and the likelihood that the market will fall by half over the completion of the current cycle.

There will always be conceptual issues with any single valuation measure, so the best we can do is evaluate valuations from the standpoint of multiple historically reliable approaches.

For our part, we don't follow the Coppock indicator per se, but the broad range of technical measures we follow include our own variant that is associated with stronger and more reliable subsequent returns (this variant has not even gone to negative levels yet, much less turned favorable).

As a result, starting valuations, on historically reliable measures, are 90 % correlated with actual subsequent 10 - year total market returns.

Historically, we find that the least reliable market valuation measures are the Fed Model, the raw price / earnings ratio, and the forward operating P / E.

We spend lots of time explaining how GAAP earnings are not reliable measures of corporate profits, and non-GAAP earnings are worse.

In any event, the problem for investors is that whatever increment we could possibly observe in GDP growth pales in comparison to the fact that the most historically reliable market valuation measures are far more than double their historical norms.

Generally the higher the R - squared measure, the more reliable the beta measurement will be.

The economic gains and market returns that emerged during the Reagan Administration began from a starting point of 10.8 % unemployment, a current account surplus, and market valuations that - on the most historically reliable measures - were less than one - quarter of present levels.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

Historical norms for the most reliable measures are less than half of present levels.

We've long argued, and continue to assert, that the most historically reliable measures of market valuation are far beyond double their historical norms.

The essential thing to understand about valuations is that while they are highly reliable measures of prospective long - term market returns (particularly over 10 - 12 year horizons), and of potential downside risk over the completion of any market cycle, valuations are also nearly useless over shorter segments of the market cycle.

Historically - reliable valuation measures are remarkably useful in projecting long - term and full - cycle market outcomes, but the behavior of the market over shorter segments of the market cycle is driven by the psychological inclination of investors toward speculation or risk - aversion.

With the most historically reliable valuation measures about 2.8 times their historical norms, these extreme starting valuations are worth considering here.

These measures include the S&P 500 price / revenue ratio, the Margin - Adjusted CAPE (our more reliable variant of Robert Shiller's cyclically - adjusted P / E), and MarketCap / GVA — the ratio of nonfinancial market capitalization to corporate gross value - added, including estimated foreign revenues — which is easily the most reliable valuation measure we've ever created or tested, among scores of alternatives.

This does not, for even a moment, change the fact that the most reliable measures of valuation are now an average of 3.0 times their historical norms.

Although Wall Street continues to assert that valuations are «reasonable given the level of interest rates,» keep in mind that the most reliable measures of valuation imply negative 10 - 12 year total returns for the S&P 500.

The most reliable measures of individual stock valuation we've found are based on formal discounted cash flow considerations, but among publicly - available measures we've evaluated, price / revenue ratios are better correlated with actual subsequent returns than price / earnings ratios (though normalized profit margins and other factors are obviously necessary to make cross-sectional comparisons).

Recent cycles provide no evidence of deterioration in the relationship between reliable valuation measures (particularly those that aren't highly sensitive to fluctuations in profit margins) and actual subsequent market returns.

Again, the problem is that market valuations are presently more than double those norms on the most historically reliable measures.