Sentences with phrase «average slope»

It was purely factual: over which time interval T is the modern variation (average slope on -LSB-- T; 0]-RRB- outside the statistical distribution of the same quantity computed over all past intervals -LSB-- t - T; - t]?

To verify this conjecture, we calculated the monthly average roll cost of the S&P 500 ® VIX Short - Term Futures Index as the monthly average slope between the first - month futures and the second - month futures.

Across the region, the average slope of the land dropped by more than 10 degrees post-mining.

I drove this car up Mount Washington (average slope 12 %) without any problems but on descent the first gear (selected manually) could not hold it.

A few years ago I drove a 2006 Corolla (also automatic) into a canyon in Colorado (average slope 16 %) and the first gear held beautifully at no more than 15 mph.

Based on this assumption, we have a prior that individual factor or strategy slopes shrunk half way to the average slope for factors or strategies should provide a better estimate on a forward - looking basis.

use as the slope the average of P specific slope and the average slope for all factors or all strategies (group).

Instead of focusing on any one result, measure the correlation for every fifteen - or twenty - year window starting as far back as we have data and see whether the average slope is significantly different from zero (that is pretty close to basic data smoothing, something about the 1998 crowd particularly seems to miss).

The problem I have is that I don't know the average slope of the shore.

The difference in the average slope is probably related to the density differences.

The first problem arises because RCS detrending removes the average slope (derived from the data for all trees) from each individual tree measurement series.

327: David Benson: So what is the central value and the dispersion of the average slope in the previous centuries?