Medians are often more useful than averages for looking
at the distribution of incomes in a group, since averages can be skewed by extremely high - value outliers.
«Markets are volatile, and very rarely will you receive the exact long - term annual return in any specific year,» says Zack Shepard, vice president of Matson Money in Scottsdale, Ariz. «If you look
at the distribution of returns for the entire U.S. market since 1926, they have ranged from 60 percent to -40 percent.»
This alone doesn't tell the whole story and in order to make the point, it's more helpful to look
at the distribution of returns.
Oxfam International has released the findings of their latest report looking
at the distribution of the world's wealth, and what they found is pretty shocking.
When looking
at the distribution of family size by race and ethnicity, the distinctiveness of the Hispanic family becomes particularly apparent.
Flanagan says those allocations were made before he became leader in May, after the previous leader was arrested on corruption charges, and that he's going to take another look
at the distribution of the funds.
This new 3 - D map provides the first detailed look
at the distribution of stellar debris following a supernova explosion.
What's more, by looking
at the distribution of dark and normal matter in our universe, scientists can get a better handle on dark energy and how it battles gravity to slow the growth of galactic structures.
The P - curve is a test that looks
at the distribution of P values across a series of experiments or studies.
Gabriel Bihain and Ralf - Dieter Scholz have taken a careful look
at the distribution of nearby known brown dwarfs from a point of view that was not looked at before.
Investigators looked
at the distributions of 1,643 protected species in Australia, and counted up the number of these species that occurred in square - kilometer units across the continent.
«If you look
at the distribution of HIV among populations, the incidence simply doesn't follow the patterns of injections.»
Searching for an answer, neuroscientists Henry Paulson, Randall Pittman, and their Pennsylvania colleagues set out 2 years ago to look
at the distribution of the MJD gene's protein product in normal brains and those of MJD patients.
In the future, Romps plans to look
at the distribution of lightning - strike increases around the U.S. and also explore what lightning data can tell climatologists about atmospheric convection.
Finally, Sullivan and his team looked
at the distribution of viral populations, the majority of which had not been previously characterized, across all of the Tara Oceans sample sites.
In the case of our sun, if you look
at the distribution of planets across the sky, you see they're all in the same plane.
The site - which has its roots in Europe but started up in the United States five months ago - took a look recently
at the distribution of its 8,000 - plus members and decided that Maryland ranks 31st and Washington D.C. is at 40th place in the nation.
Let's look again
at the distribution of performance among TFA and non-TFA teachers.
If you look
at the distribution of scores, you see exactly the same distances as any other test.
In her public testimony during Connecticut's 2012 education reform bill, Jennifer Alexander of ConnCAN testified that too few teachers were being dismissed for poor performance: «When you look
at the distribution of ratings in those systems, you again see only about two percent of teachers, maybe five max, falling at that bottom rating category.»
First, a quick glance
at the distribution of 115,000 of the best selling titles by publisher category, collected en masse from Amazon.co.uk's bestseller lists.
Think of this chart as being able to glance
at the distribution of Amazon rank by publishing type:
Here's a look
at the distribution of those channels broken down by the most - represented YouTube Multi-Channel Networks on the chart:
And, if someone believes that uncertainties in scientific understanding justify a wait - and - see attitude toward global warming, looking
at the distribution of uncertainties suggests a serious reconsideration.
The poverty level in China has dropped immensely since the late 1970s, but if you look
at the distribution of improvement over time versus their carbon emissions over the same period there's little correlation.
Nope: Look
at the distribution of continental landmasses of the Ordovician (~ 450 MY).
It clearly states that connecting them with any sort of conducting pathway will cause heat to flow — it is really pretty trivial to look
at the distribution of microstates and show that equilibrium will have the same temperature.
You finally filter out from the collection of trials all those with a particular measured C14 age, and look
at the distributions of true calendar ages that generated it, compared against the measured calendar age distribution each algorithm output.
Looking
at the distribution of «knee - point index», what I found was a non-Gaussian looking distribution.
Rather than measure TMIN TREND in two conditions (windy / calm) Let'd just look
at the distribution of TMAX - TMIN under wind velocity conditions.
In the future, Romps plans to look
at the distribution of lightning - strike increases around the U.S. and also explore what lightning data can tell climatologists about atmospheric convection.
Since I have been concerned about the distribution of theYamal tree ring deltas and its influence on the shape of theYamal series, I looked
at the distribution of deltas for that series.
In a new report for the Center for Community Progress called «Who's Moving to the Cities; Who Isn't: Comparing American Cities,» researcher Alan Mallach looked
at the distribution of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher by age group in 2000 and 2012 in 24 major U.S. cities.
Not exact matches
He has written and spoken
at national media conferences about the changing channels
of entertainment
distribution.
The magazine feature highlights the government's investigation
of the company's conduct
at its Landover, Md.,
distribution center (which closed in 2012 for unrelated reasons).
Walmart now has grocery pick - up
at 1,000
of its 4,700 U.S. stores, firepower that is essential as it competes with Amazon's Prime Now and that retailer's recent acquisition
of Whole Foods Market, which gave it 300 new physical
distribution points.
Plus, in 2008, the Aurora
distribution center had been
at the center
of another settlement — this one for $ 13.25 million — for the same issue: failing to report suspicious orders (McKesson did not admit wrongdoing).
And if
AT&T's objective is a level playing field and the widest possible
distribution of Time Warner content, why overspend to buy Time Warner
at all?
FedEx on Saturday canceled plans to build a new
distribution center in Indiana after deciding that «automation and technological enhancements»
at other centers have rendered the one planned in the city
of Greenwood unnecessary.
When Julie Uhrman was vice president
of digital
distribution at IGN Entertainment, the video game news site, she came to the realization that something was seriously wrong with the console industry.
What Target thought was the «in - DC date,» meaning the date on which product would arrive
at a
distribution centre, was interpreted by some
of its larger vendor partners as the day on which they would actually ship the product to Target.
«They may be able to look
at some
of their
distribution structure to see if they can take advantage
of lower transportation costs,» he says.
«It's a culture
of service,» says current chief executive Terry Davis in an interview
at Home Hardware's headquarters, which adjoins the company's 1.5 million square - foot
distribution centre
at the edge
of tiny St. Jacobs.
Fox Networks Group Chairman Peter Rice said
at the Milken Institute Global Conference last week that Fox was looking to buy Tribune Media because «having more scale and more control
of distribution is important.»
The news, which Arrington announced
at an investor conference in New York, is significant because investors will buy shares
of the fund and receive
distributions in XRP.
However, rather than compete for market share on the merits or fulfill its statutory obligation to enable competitors to practice its invention after its patents expired, Green Mountain has abused its dominance in the brewer market by coercing business partners
at every level
of the K - Cup
distribution system to enter into anticompetitive agreements intended to unlawfully maintain Green Mountain's monopoly over the markets in which K - Cups are sold.
Take a look
at the infographic below to peruse further findings from the report, including examples
of SuperEntreprenuers, their geographic
distribution and descriptions
of what supports SuperEntreprenuerial nations.
Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled
at the end
of their lifespan for material reuse; reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering
distribution methods as a means
of reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease - causing air pollution that is its byproduct).
The transition
of the
distribution centers will not begin for
at least 12 months.
«What if these kids on the bottom
of the income
distribution innovated
at the same rate as the kids who come from higher income families?»