Sentences with phrase «deviations from the average»

By defining deviation from the average rate of dilatation as pathologic, it tells the 40 percent of women who have augmentations that they are abnormal Davis - Floyd (1992), and others describe and document the damage done by Western birth rituals that teach women to believe they are defective mechanisms from which their babies will be rescued by technology.

The gray - shaded region shows two standard deviations from the average daily sea ice extent.

The x-axis records magnitude and the y - axis records the deviation from the average magnitude of a given object.

Have you noticed that small deviations from the average, basic clothing piece have the power to open up a whole new perspective?

Since then, we have continued to think that the average — a human invention — represents everyone or that any deviation from the average is what defines you.

The overall grade for each state was determined by comparing the difference with the standard deviation from the average for all states for all four years on the tests for which the state reported proficiency percentages.

It can allow comparison of individual student performance across the entire pool of students to determine any positive or negative deviations from average performance

In other words, it is the deviation from the average return.

The strategy CAR was 1.3 standard deviations from the average of all the variations.

The impact is a function of the magnitude of the change in the concentration (i.e. deviation from the average) of aerosols.

Vertical lines show the temperature deviations from average of individual summers, the five coldest and the five warmest are highlighted.

They looked at global temperature anomalies — deviations from an average or standard temperature — for 73 sites distributed across the planet, using fossils in sediments as a proxy for temperature.

: Figure 18 - of change in the mean temperature of summer (deviations from the average), smoothed by 50 - year filter, and the dynamics of polar timber line

Global sea ice (Arctic plus Antarctic) continues to track at record low levels in the satellite record, but the deviation from average has moderated compared to what was observed in November.

They then show any deviation from the average temperature at during that time period as an anomaly.

Figure 2: Greenland ice mass anomaly - deviation from the average ice mass over the 2002 to 2011 period.

This means that the restoring forces are weak allowing deviations from the average state grow larger and persist longer.

Monthly temperature anomalies (deviations from average) with the red line trend showing how we're getting hotter.

Anomaly is defined as the deviation from the average heat content over 2003 to 2008.

The plot shows deviations from the average temperature over the years 1981 — 2010.

It is simply the deviation from the average temperature that is used to determine the anomaly temperature.

Climate scientists only measure the deviation from the average which they call the anomaly.

Temperature anomalies (deviations from average) from 1880 to 2015.

Shall we have a look for a moment at the annual data for each hemisphere: Northern hemisphere: http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/hemispheric/northern/annual Southern hemisphere: http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/hemispheric/southern/annual Now, in the period 1945 - 1968 can you find a single year where the NH was cooler than the SH (its deviation from the average was more negative than that of the SH)?

Now, in the period 1945 - 1968 can you find a single year where the NH was cooler than the SH (its deviation from the average was more negative than that of the SH)?

The IPCC quotes «likely» as corresponding to a 60 % confidence interval - in repeated tests you would expect to get results within a certain deviation from the average 60 % of the time.

This works because price is seldom able to sustain itself beyond 2 standard deviations from its average, in other words extremes of volatility generally «snap back.»

Not exact matches

In the example at the top of the page, the simple average is 25 % and the standard deviation is 75 % (since the data points of +100 and -50 lie at a distance of 75 away from the simple average); in this case the estimate gives the exact answer of zero for the CAGR:

For each decile, we've subtracted the 1986 - 2016 average price / revenue ratio for that decile, dividing the result by the standard deviation of valuations in that decile (again from 1986 - 2016).

After the third longest bull market advance on record, fresh deterioration in key trend - following components within our measures of market internals (see Support Drops Away) recently joined this extended, overvalued, overbought, overbullish peak, even as the S&P 500 hovers at the top of its monthly Bollinger bands (two standard deviations above the 20 - period average) and cyclical momentum rolls over from a 9 - year high.

From 1970 to 2009, a Canadian stock portfolio (single asset class) earned an average annual return of 9.70 % with a «standard deviation» of 16.57 % 3.

Perhaps a great deal of their outperformance stems not from their creative deviations, but from their iron adherence to many (but not all) of Ben Graham's better than average rules.

The larger the standard deviation, the greater the likelihood (and risk) that a security's performance will fluctuate from the average return.

Standard Deviation is a measure of the degree to which a fund's return varies from its previous returns, or from the average of all similar funds.

That would have brought the score up to 17 and much closer to being only one standard deviation away from your average.

The researchers also looked at deviations of daily temperatures from seasonal averages in trying to determine the effect of anomalies on crime rates.

«From the brief report it is not clear what the levels of disease mtDNA are in the various tissues of the offspring, although the average is relatively low, nor is it clear whether the + / -0.92 % is standard deviation, standard error or a confidence interval, although we assume standard deviation.

b, Net TOA flux from CERES, ERA - Interim reanalysis and the one standard deviation about the 2001 — 2010 average of 15 CMIP3 models (grey bar) are anchored to an estimate of Earth's heating rate for July 2005 — June 2010.

Average tumor burden and standard deviations were derived from at least four animals per group.

Climate is defined as the statistical properties of the atmosphere: averages, extremes, frequency of occurrence, deviations from normal, and so forth.»

A double - blind flight simulation study assessing motor performance in licensed pilots «flying» through pre-specified (and practiced) holding patterns showed that smoking marijuana significantly increased major and minor errors, and led to larger average deviations from the assigned flight sequence, compared to those who smoked placebo cigarettes.

Cognitive performance was then compared among high, low, and middle groups of cardiovascular fitness; interpreted as increased (i.e., the average deviation from the regression line was +2.5; SD, 0.4), decreased (average deviation, − 2.3; SD, 0.6), and approximately unchanged (average deviation, − 0.03; SD, 0.8) cardiovascular fitness, respectively.

The average job switcher moving from one district to another moved to a district whose average achievement was 0.07 standard deviations higher on the TAAS than the district the teacher left.

We find that online applicants come from colleges where the average student's SAT math score is 30 points or about 0.2 standard deviations lower than students from in - person applicants» colleges.

On average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scores.

The foolishness derives from the observation that human performance is often normally distributed, which means that some are necessarily one or more standard deviations above or below the average.

> Because principals differ in the generosity and degree of variation in the ratings they give, we placed all the ratings on the same scale by subtracting from each teacher's rating the average rating given by that teacher's principal and then dividing by the principal's standard deviation.

We estimate that the average growth in English language arts scores due to changing from a fixed mindset to a neutral mindset (a one standard deviation change) is between 0.03 and 0.02 standard deviations in test performance.

Having a teacher from one program or another typically changed student test scores by just.01 to.03 standard deviations, or 1 to 3 percent of the average score gap between poor and non-poor children.

The U.S. Department of Education derives the equity factor by calculating the average deviation in per - pupil spending from the state mean to create a weighted coefficient of variation.