Sentences with phrase «average error for»

Though the Apple Watch doesn't do poorly in this arena, that doesn't mean much: the lowest margin of error across the pack was 27.4 % average, with a whopping 92.6 % average error for the Fitbit Surge.

The average error for the 2007 - 2015 period is 4.9 % or 0.154 million km2 for daily minimum sea ice area.

The Root MSE tells us that the models are on average 3 to 5 percentage points out on the change in share of the council seats won, which is a big average error for a prediction model when there are thousands of seats up for election.

Not exact matches

«Gifted, determined, ambitious professionals have come into investment management in such large numbers during the past 30 years that it may no longer be feasible for any of them to profit from the errors of all the other sufficiently often and by sufficient magnitude to beat market averages.»

Calculated by a workforce management company for a company with 10 employees paid an average hourly rate of $ 21.50 for an annual workforce payroll expense of $ 447,200 and based on a 0.6 % payroll error cost reduction, a payroll inflation rate of 0.4 %, losses due to «buddy punching» of 1.0 %, and an attendance management cost reduction (absenteeism) of 0.45 %.

Since the probability for any one of these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance averages less than one in ten (figured very conservatively) and since the prophecies are for the most part independent of one another, the odds for all these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance without error is less than one in 102000 (that is 1 with 2000 zeros written after it)!

It takes serious effort to even approach 1.00 for average error, so kudos to OurDailyBears for being the Nate Silver of the BlogPoll this week.

Since June 15 Minnesota has released free - agent signeeTony Batista -LRB-.303 OBP and six errors in 50 games at third base), unloadedshortstop Juan Castro -LRB-.258 OBP) to the Reds and designated another off - seasonpickup, DH Rondell White -LRB-.182 average), for assignment.

Cleveland's defense doesn't leave the team much room for error, but a red - hot LeBron James who has averaged 31.5 points per game in the month of March indicates that the Eastern Conference should still be on high alert.

The player has created 23 chances for his teammates and averages at least two defensive actions per match, committing one defensive error so far this season.

Dier created 14 chances for his teammates last season, offering a pass success rate of 87 %, which is consistent with United's standards, also offering an average of six defensive actions per match last season, committing two defensive errors in total.

Further to those stats, Seri averages a passing success rate of 91 %, a shot accuracy of 67 %, has created 35 chances for his teammates, averages at least 18 metres when passing, also averaging at least one defensive action per match — making two defensive errors this season.

Effect estimates across the five imputations were averaged and standard errors were calculated accounting for both within - imputation and between - imputation variability.19, 20

Since the UK uses paper ballot, the possibility for human error in the recount is obviously still there, however sorting errors should on average be reduced, since this will be a further check on resorted piles, rather than the initial sorting.

It was slightly less accurate in 2010, with an average error of 18 seats for the three major parties.

The average error compared to the final result was 1.6 % for phone polls and 1.6 % for online polls.

The final YouGov poll not to prompt using minor parties would have had an average error of 2.0 % for the main 4 parties, and 1.6 % if you included the Greens — suggesting it would have been less accurate on the main parties, but more accurate for the Green share of the vote.

This process continued until the participant had made errors on at least 20 high - confidence and 20 low - confidence answers — on average, this required about 244 questions for the older adults and about 230 questions for the younger adults.

Land Only: The August global land temperature was the second highest for August on record, behind only 1998, at 1.78 °F (0.99 °C) above the 20th century average of 56.9 °F (13.8 °C), with a margin of error of + / - 0.43 °F (0.24 °C).

Marzari notes that even for battery materials, an area in which computational materials science is having its best success stories, standard calculations still have an average error of half a volt, which makes a lot of difference in terms of performance.

(A) The average error values with 95 % confidence intervals for each read length.

He took the average from two climate models (2ºC from Suki Manabe at GFDL, 4ºC from Jim Hansen at GISS) to get a mean of 3ºC, added half a degree on either side for the error and produced the canonical 1.5 - 4.5 ºC range which survived unscathed even up to the IPCC TAR (2001) report.

Still, for these women, the test results accurately predicted menopause, give or take an average of about four months, with a maximum margin of error of 3 to 4 years (the greatest amount the test was «off»).

After an average sleep loss of approximately 55 minutes for 6 nights, a neurobehavioral test showed that performance of ADHD children worsened from the subclinical to the clinical range of inattention on 4 of 6 measures, which included reaction time and omission errors.

It goes through in detail various potential sources of error and bias (e.g. manner and timing of reporting of weight, mammography, high risk vs average population, cancer subtypes, hormone therapies, etc) that may be confounding results, and relates results of previous studies to those of a more recent study which attempted to correct for some of these errors.

But parents will not receive their child's reports until mid-October after a production error saw the national average placed in the wrong spot on the results for the language conventions test in years 5 and 7, which tests spelling, grammar and punctuation.

The margin of error cuts both ways, however, as the 2007 statewide averages for all students in Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Texas all fell within two points of Florida's average for Hispanics on the 4th - grade reading exam.

Type of errors, resolution, and calculating average uncertainty and percentage uncertainties for more able students.

As with AYP, we calculated an error rate for the Florida grading system, the chance that one would make a mistake - that is, pick a school where average learning rates were lower - if one picked a school solely on the basis of its official grade.

Stanford's Sean Reardon, whose research was used as the basis for the piece, said the journalists who produced the piece made «a common, but significant, error» in how they presented student test averages.

Value - added models often control for variables such as average prior achievement for a classroom or school, but this practice could introduce errors into value - added estimates.

Kane also replied that he could estimate the state's error rate «on average,» but he couldn't estimate error rates for individual teachers.

Fallible estimates and standard errors notwithstanding, the «best estimate» of the true score (i.e., the true performance level for a given school) is the average, and thus averages are used to report school performance.

We know, for example, that the average is the wrong measurement of student proficiency (O'Connor, 2007); that the zero on a 100 - point scale is a math error (Reeves, 2004); and that the implementation of effective grading practices can have a positive effect on student achievement, discipline, and attendance (Reeves, 2008).

• Excellent absolute color accuracy in the Basic screen mode with an average error of just 2.1 JNCD, the best for any mobile display.

Among all existing Tablets of any size, the iPad mini 4 takes first place and breaks performance records in many of the most important test categories including: lowest screen Reflectance (2.0 percent), highest contrast rating in high ambient light (225), a near perfect log - straight intensity scale and gamma of 2.22, and the highest absolute color accuracy (average / maximum color errors of 1.9 and 4.2 JNCD — tied for first place with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4).

``... I am researching the time it takes on average to convert from PDF to EPUB, including the time it takes to edit the «rough» EPUB file created by the automated conversion to clean up the formatting errors, resulting in a «clean» EPUB suitable for display on an eReader device.

In contrast, I've often quoted the Shiller P / E (which essentially uses a 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) as a simple but historically informative alternative, but I should emphasize that we strongly prefer our standard methodologies based on earnings, forward earnings, dividends and other fundamentals, all which have a fairly tight relationship with subsequent 7 - 10 year total returns (see Lessons from a Lost Decade, The Likely Range of Market Returns in the Coming Decade, Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings, and No Margin of Safety, No Room for Error).

Rosenberg's excellent credit habits — always pay balances on time and in full, check his report for errors, go on «credit fasts» before a major credit application — plus the increase in the average age of his accounts have pushed his score to 820.

Fig. 7 shows the average mean absolute error in years for the original answer and the final answer.

The article also mentions that the average tracking error for ETFs was 1.25 % in 2009 — over twice the.52 % average in 2008.

And its portfolio is far older, with a weighted average age of 92 yrs & a 4 yr LE, leaving the old dears with v little room for error... After a $ 10 million policy windfall in just 5 months, TLI's got another $ 122 million (# 84 million) of maturities ahead (primarily, within 1.5 - 5.5 yrs)-- albeit, premiums will cost $ 8.8 million pa.

Because the American Community Survey pulls from a sample of 3 million households yearly and averaged over 5 years to attain estimates for each Census tract, Walker emphasizes that the map only represents estimates of immigrant population in the U.S. and is, therefore, subject to a margin of error.

«These new results indicate that relative sea levels in New Zealand have been rising at an average rate of 1.6 mm / yr over the last 100 years — a figure that is not only within the error bounds of the original determination, but when corrected for glacial - isostatic effects has a high level of coherency with other regional and global sea level rise determinations.

He took the average from two climate models (2ºC from Suki Manabe at GFDL, 4ºC from Jim Hansen at GISS) to get a mean of 3ºC, added half a degree on either side for the error and produced the canonical 1.5 - 4.5 ºC range which survived unscathed even up to the IPCC TAR (2001) report.

Averaging together the various data sets is useful for identifying these latter errors.

Running this simulation, with the nimbers for ACO2 from Marland etal., 2003, reproduces the Hawian data from 1959 to 2003 with an average error of 3.95 + / - 2.8 ppm.

One estimate of that error for the MSU 2 product (a weighted average of tropospheric + lower stratospheric trends) is that two different groups (UAH and RSS) come up with a range of tropical trends of 0.048 to 0.133 °C / decade — a much larger difference than the simple uncertainty in the trend.

Furthermore since modelers tweak cloud parameters to match global albedo and achieve energy balance, and because the AR4 models achieve a good match to global average surface temperatures, there are at least partially compensating errors elsewhere in the models for both albedo and temperature.

The poster suggests that you calculate the total average cloud forcing error over a block of time, not the error in the change in cloud forcing, for which the units would be W / m ^ 2 / year.