Not exact matches
If you look
at historical market
data,
over two - thirds of the best 30 weeks, for example, have occurred in periods when market valuations were below their
historical medians.
The immense amount of material accumulated has shown that analogous structures have been found
over and
over again in different religions and that it has therefore been possible to state some general laws which permit us to think in terms of an ordered unity and
at the same time to differentiate the religious
datum at various levels in its
historical totality.
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When we look back
at the
historical data summarised in Figure 1 below, we find the period since the mid-1980s has been one in which successive governments have opted for small, year - to - year reductions in the growth of overall public spending, rather than greater reductions
over a shorter period.
Researchers
at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) have now revealed, on the basis of
historical data, how plant diversity in the region of Halle an der Saale has changed in
over 300 years of urbanization, and have also made predictions about the future.
Researchers
at Oxford University have been studying the Wytham Woods great tit population in Oxfordshire for 70 years and so the team had access to a wealth of
historical data which clearly showed that the British great tits» beaks were getting longer
over time.
Using
historical data from horizontal wells in the Barnett Shale formation in North Texas, Tad Patzek, professor and chair in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering; Michael Marder, professor of physics in the College of Natural Sciences; and Frank Male, a graduate student in physics, used a simple physics theory to model the rate
at which production from the wells declines
over time, known as the «decline curve.»
(A backtest is simply a statistical look
at historical data to determine whether employing a given investment factor, such as selecting stocks with low price - earnings ratios, results in excess returns
over time; i.e., returns above a stock market benchmark.)
Since Schwab's fundamentally - indexed mutual funds have been in existence for
over six years now, and that period spanned a significant market downturn, it is worthwhile to take a look
at their
historical risk - adjusted performance, as measured by the trailing five - year Sharpe Ratio (all
data from Morningstar):
But,
historical data over a 100 years tends to suggest that they are fairly equal in performance, just
at different times.
Being forewarned is being forearmed, so look back
at your
historical intake
data month
over month to get an idea.»
These products represent,
at least in principal, a significant improvement
over simple long - term averages of
historical data.
Many of the
historical CO2
data by chemical methods compiled by Ernst Beck are measurements (with less accuracy) which were taken
at places nearby huge sources
over land, not resembling background CO2 levels.
When looking
at historical data for hurricanes affecting the United States, the
data shows no trend
over time.
These have been combined to give us a clearer picture of what the
historical data can tell us about global climate change
over the past 161 years,» Colin Morice, climatologist
at the Met Office, said in a press release.
Lots of the
historical data were relative accurate (+ / - 10 ppmv), but taken
at the wrong places:
over land, near huge sinks and sources.
Thanks Wayne, I was looking for the accuracy of the early glass electrodes... If we put the ancient electrodes and procedures
at 0.1 units (best result) and the pH drop
at a fixed place in the oceans with a growth of 40 % CO2 is not more than 0.1 pH units
over 100 years, what then is the value of the
historical data, taken
at a lot of different places in different seasons?
Thus I don't think that he
historical data have much value, as one need a series of
data with very high accuracy (better than 0.01 pH unit)
at the same place
at high (
at least monthly) frequency
over many years to have a clear picture of any pH trends...
Actual
historical data is hard to come by for the MWP; but there are records from all
over the civilized world
at the time that confirm a MWP that was slightly warmer than today.
OT, but just read (
over at Neven's ASIB) that Walsh and co,
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, have done a massive
data rescue, digitization and preparation job, to create an
historical sea ice atlas of Alaskan waters.