Sentences with phrase «depend on assumptions»

We value real estate based on comparable sales and using discounted cash flow models, but these models often depend on assumptions that may not play out.

«Doesn't this argument depend on the assumptions that (a) it's the clerks who are slipping all this pernicious political agenda stuff into the opinions, and (b) that back in the good ole days, when the caseload was high and the clerks weren't there, that the opinions were full of intellectual rigor and devoid of political agendas?»

The explanation you choose will depend on your assumptions about global warming.

Lots of statistical analyses have been performed, and the indications that you get depend on the assumptions that you make about the natural variability (i.e., the variability independent of the CO2).

The figures from this calculator depend on assumptions made about the number of passengers in the particular mode of transport (that is, the «load factor»).

Accrual entries depend on assumptions and can be tweaked to favor management's view of profitability.

Your financial projections greatly depend on your assumptions, especially for inflation rate and investment return.

Actuarial Miscalculations and Demographic Changes: Pension plan valuations depend on assumptions about a host of factors like how much employees will earn, how long they'll stay, how long they'll live in retirement, etc..

To illustrate potential mutation - specific effects on absolute cancer risks, we used the hazard ratio estimates to derive approximate absolute risks and 95 % confidence intervals, based on published estimates for the overall risks of breast and ovarian cancer by age 70 years.26 These estimates are for illustration and do not represent absolute risk estimates that would be required in a genetic counseling setting, as they do not account for noncancer outcomes that may influence a woman's life expectancy, the effects of family history, and nonrandom ascertainment of mutation carriers in this sample and depend on assumptions about the prevalence of different mutation classes in the population.

Whether the U.S. current account deficit is harmful or not to the U.S. economy depends on the assumptions we make about capital scarcity.

Whatever its merits in other respects, however, this criticism depends on its assumption that a teleological validation of perfect duties must be empirical.

It depended on the assumption that there has been progress in Western history.

Traditional sexual morality depended on the assumption that human sexuality possessed an objective moral nature and seriousness that all human beings were obliged to respect and that society itself was entitled to protect through law and custom.

Whitehead's argument against it depends on the assumption that Plato was no wiser in his use of this analogy than Plotinus and the other neo-platoni5ts.

The team's simulations show that 70 to 98 % of the middleweight black holes at the hearts of clusters were ejected, depending on the assumptions used, such as the mass of the small black holes and the initial mass of the middleweight black hole.

Crucially, our methods depend on the assumption that records of deaths from lung cancer are equally reliable in all subpopulations.

The optimum depends on the assumptions for the various probabilities, but it could be as low as two or three in stable countries with a popular leader.

Then, we predict the summer ice area depending on the assumption that thick ice remains later and thin ice melts sooner than the average.

My preferred estimate, as explained above, is 10 percent, indicated by the bold figures, and the other rows show how the results vary depending on the assumption one makes about private school usage in the absence of vouchers.

I guess that's possible, depending on the assumptions you make.

The return depends on the assumptions you make about sales, print quantities and costs, -LSB-...]

Use of this model is controversial and can produce widely varying results depending on your assumptions.

But it depends on the assumptions & Permutations & combinations.

Is a possible outcome; this depends on the assumption that the bonds in the said country are still deemed safe.

The buying - versus - renting debate has gone on forever because the answer depends on assumptions you make about the future, your local housing conditions, interest rates, your income tax rate, future tax rates, inflation, future interest rates etc..

«Depending on your assumptions about the economy, that federal debt will grow at an unsustainable level starting immediately, or in a very few years,» Hoenig said.

A big part of the problem is that determining what is tax efficient depends on assumptions about future returns, differences in tax rates, and the behaviour of tax shelters.

«The evidence for the success of TVHR in this study depends on assumptions related to the reproductive physiology and behavioral ecology of domestic cats that, in our view, do not seem to be supported by available empirical evidence and remain to be better understood.»

V: The logic behind the claim that lowered temperatures mid-century were due largely to the emission of industrial aerosols from the unconstrained burning of fossil fuels depends on the assumption that the warming to be expected from the release of CO2 was somehow neutralized by the release of those aerosols.

Hence, depending on assumptions made, different groups of scientists will estimate different budget sizes.

It all depends on your assumptions» http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5280420

One is a meso - scale (or micro-scale) experiment and one depends on assumptions about carbonate limits that don't seem to be real.

So the question whether man - made warming will be catastrophic depends on the assumption of strong net positive feedbacks in the climate system.

«To my mind», «only justifiable discussion», «is as a pathological process», «with a view to eliminating it», stated that these are purely personal beliefs («my mind»), shown further by no evidence to back up these statements («tautologies», «a series of self - reinforcing statements that can not be disproved because they depend on the assumption that they are already correct).

It should be noted simple linear regression using ordinary least squares is not really the best method for assessing these data as it depends on assumptions which are violated by global temperature measurements.

In fact, using this with high discount rates can still yield that we should encourage more fossil fuel use until 2020 to 2050 depending on assumptions, discount rate, model chosen to linearize for ECS of 1.7 C, etc..

Sorry to be so practical, but it is a highly idealised mechanism and depends on assumptions of loss - free transfers plus a good deal of organisation of the active transfer process (which implies work).

Global Warming theory depends on the assumption that the earth is a completely closed and contained system.

In fact, a major government - sponsored study found that clean energy could contribute somewhere between three and 80 times its 2013 levels, depending on assumptions [8].

Their famous attribution graph depends on the assumption that their models accurately simulate natural variability with so much precision that they can draw tiny little blue uncertainty bands around the simulations that don't overlap with the GHG forcing simulations.

Another potential source of error comes from projections concerning future greenhouse - gas emissions, which vary depending on assumptions about economic developments.

That depends on the assumptions and the rate equations used.

It depends on your assumptions regarding clouds and albedo.

The «it's natural variation» argument depends on the assumption that there are lots of other factors (known or unknown) that affect global temperature, so there is no reason to think that CO2 has any effect at all.

But even if this is a result of the GISS model, this largely depends on the assumptions made in the model for e.g. amounts and radiative effect of aerosols, which are far from settled.

Anyway your computer model depends on assumptions.

The pro-AGW argument seems to depend on an assumption of negative feedbacks in the past that for some reason can't be expected to operate now or in the future.

Since the whole piece depends on the assumption that biofuels are central to the response to global warming, there's not much more to be said.

As we began to map out ideas for a globalized LRW course, we realized the extent to which our case for globalizing LRW depends on assumptions about the increasingly global nature of typical legal practice.

Both depend on the assumption that it would be logically best to ally domestic and European law.