Sentences with phrase «dividing by the standard»

It is calculated by taking a fund's excess return over that of the three - month Treasury bill divided by its standard deviation.

They normalize an interval return by subtracting the average return for all such intervals in the sample period and then dividing by their standard deviation.

We focus on gross compound annual growth rate (CAGR), gross maximum drawdown (MaxDD) and rough gross annual Sharpe ratio (average annual return divided by standard deviation of annual returns) as key performance statistics for the Top 1, equally weighted (EW) Top 2 and EW Top 3 portfolios of monthly winners.

Cohen's d is defined as the difference between two means divided by a standard deviation of the pooled groups or of the control group alone.

The effect size of this difference is.81 and was computed by subtracting the mean of the comparison group from the mean of the experimental group and dividing by the standard deviation of the comparison group (Cohen 1977).

By using risk - adjusted yield — computed as 12 - month trailing yield divided by the standard deviation of yield — the higher weight is placed on securities with more stable yields.

Another way to look at the results of the AAII screens is to calculate compound annual returns divided by standard deviation for each series of results from 1998 to 2012.

The calculated performance number can be volatility adjusted, in which case the model adjusts the asset return performance by calculating the average daily return over the timing period divided by the standard deviation of daily total returns over the volatility window period.

To show a relationship between excess return and risk, this number is then divided by the standard deviation of the portfolio's annualized excess returns.

Standard Deviation (StdDev (x)-RRB- Now that we have calculated the excess return from subtracting the risk - free rate of return from the return of the risky asset, we need to divide this by the standard deviation of the risky asset being measured.

It is calculated by taking a fund's excess return over that of the three - month Treasury bill divided by its standard deviation.

A measure that indicates the average return minus the risk - free return divided by the standard deviation of return on an investment.

What is the reason for dividing by the standard deviation?

If you look at that chart, the normalizing by dividing by standard deviation and then taking the difference, is not like super advanced math.

As well, since different numbers of trees contribute at different ages, both the raw averages and the standardized averages (by subtracting the number one and then dividing by the standard error) were calculated.

They take the temperature anomaly at each location and divide it by the standard deviation for that location to determine how many standard deviations away from normal the temperatures at that location were.

To avoid these two artificial parameters, as a final step we have standardized the quantities by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation of each series shown, for the whole period 1909 - 2003.»

All series were standardized by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation of each series shown for the period 1971 - 2000.»

A funnel plot is a scatter plot of the effect sizes against the effect size's precision (1 divided by the standard error).

Not exact matches

Canadian business leaders, in a poll conducted by COMPAS Inc., are divided on whether Apple is likely to suffer damage to its reputation, and whether North American companies should insist on better standards when outsourcing.

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).

Not by accident, economists at Standard Chartered recently presented a global overview titled «Divided, Disconnected, But Growing.»

They measure changes in analyst earnings forecast dispersion (standard deviation divided by mean) based on data from I / B / E / S as the difference between current dispersion and dispersion two months ago.

The Sharpe ratio is calculated by subtracting the risk - free rate - such as that of the 3 - month U.S. Treasury Bill - from the rate of return for a portfolio and dividing the result by the standard deviation of the portfolio returns.

Divide the current month average standard deviation by the 12 - month average of averages to get a lookback interval factor.

The recipe is written to bake the bread free form (on a sheet pan), but you can also divide the recipe in thirds and bake one in a 4 quart Dutch oven and the other two in standard loaf pans (8 1/2» by 4 1/2»).

Katie, to make a loaf that will fit in a standard 8 1/2» by 4 1/2» pan, you can divide all of the ingredients in half.

Next, we calculate price per drink by dividing total spend $ 48.00 by 62.15, which, in this example, equates to 77 cents per standard drink.

Rutgers led the nation in tackles for loss in 2009, and while he never replicated that at WMU, his Broncos did rank No. 38 in havoc rate (tackles for loss, forced fumbles, and passes defensed divided by total plays) and No. 37 in standard downs success rate.

Mean and standard errors of monthly weight gain after adjusting for maternal age; race / ethnicity; education; household income; marital status; parity; postpartum Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children program participation; prepregnancy body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared); infant sex; gestational age; birth weight; age at solid food introduction; and sweet drinks consumption.

The standard calculation of EBF prevalence is the number of infants under 6 months of age who were given only breast milk in the 24 h preceding the survey divided by the number of infants under 6 months of age surveyed, times 100.

This study compared birth centre care - characterised by comprehensive antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care, on the same premises with a home - like environment and the same team of midwives - to the standard obstetric care divided into antenatal care at neighbourhood antenatal clinics, intrapartum care in hospital delivery wards, and postpartum care in hospital postpartum wards.

BMI is a standard health metric that's equal to a person's weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of their height (in metres).

Extensive studies have found that 20 % to 30 % of breast cancers are characterized by over-expression of HER2, which makes the cancer cells grow and divide faster, leading to a cancer that's more aggressive and more likely to be resistant to the standard of care.

They developed a calculation to divide the sound into smaller pieces and then estimated the source location for all the small pieces, correcting for delays caused by the speed of sound in air at room temperature and at standard atmospheric pressure.

Under the Senate proposal, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) would divide the fleet into classes based on size or weight and set fuel - economy standards for each class to achieve an overall average of 35 mpg by 2020.

Standard errors for the D - statistic were determined using jackknife resampling method by dividing the genome into 1 Mb blocks.

Haldanes were calculated as h =[ (ln (x2) / sln x2) − (ln (x1) / sln x2)-RSB- / g, where ln (x1) and ln (x2) are the ln - transformed sample means of head length at the beginning and the end of the study period, respectively, sln x1 and sln x2 are the pooled standard deviations of ln (x1) and ln (x2), respectively, and g is the number of generations between the beginning and the end of the study period (years divided by generation length).

Well, sleek by the evening's standards: It was divided into three sections, which helped tie in that punk rock aesthetic.

Similar to «The Royal Tenenbaums» in that the movie is divided into chapters, Anderson goes one step further by filming each timeline in a different aspect ratio, with the 1930s portion of the story appropriately shot in the classic Hollywood standard 1.33:1 ratio.

When divided by language skill the biggest difference was seen in writing skills, where the students in the blended program obtained an average of three points more than the students in the standard program.

We define the coefficient of variation as the standard deviation of the population divided by its mean.

> 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.

States love to have kids figure out many ways to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, but often leave off the capstone standard of fluency with the standard algorithms (traditional step - by - step procedures for the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers).

We discovered this by randomly dividing our respondents into two groups, asking one group whether the federal government should set national standards and tests, while asking the other group whether the states jointly should set those standards and tests.

The new standards, based on an academic framework created by the National Academy of Sciences, divides science instruction into three equally weighted dimensions:

Assign numerical value to standards included in the teacher summary rating form: Not Demonstrated - 0; Developing - 1; Proficient - 2; Accomplished - 3; Distinguished - 4 for past two years (2011 - 12 & 2012 - 13); divide total by number of ratings; sort highest to lowest.»

After watching 6th grade teacher Andrea Smith teach her students what it meant to divide by fractions, Eric wondered, «could powerful learning experiences be captured so that teachers didn't have to re-invent the wheel every time they taught a standard?»

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

Effect sizes (Cohen's d) for middle school students versus preservice teacher candidates were calculated by subtracting the mean of the second from the first and dividing the result by the pooled standard deviation (as in Cohen, 1988).