Sentences with phrase «estimate changes in the index»

In such cases it is useful to estimate changes in the index not only from quarter to quarter but also from the same quarter of the previous year in order to get a sense of both the quarterly the annual price change respectively.

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IMF estimates of annual growth rate of world real GDP (in red, right scale) and year - over-year percent change in commodity prices as measured by the quarterly average CRB / BLS raw industrials price index (in green, left scale).

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

An interdisciplinary research team at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles has found that body mass index (BMI) is an inadequate method for estimating changes in body fat and obesity in children with leukemia.

GISS produces two estimates — the met station index (which does not cover a lot of the oceans), and a land - ocean index (which uses satellite ocean temperature changes in addition to the met stations).

Barclays Capital said in a recent note that there had been a clear change in investor flows in the U.S. commodity index - linked mutual fund sector, estimating a net outflow of $ 436 million in the past 12 months.

To estimate the potential impact of a put option covering notional value (which currently would represent one S&P 500 index put for a $ 212,664 portfolio), I've estimated the value of S&P 500 index put options back to 1940 using the Black - Scholes model, imputing volatility prior to the 1980's based on the post-1980 relationship between the CBOE volatility index (VIX) and the volatility, absolute, and directional change in the S&P 500 at each point in time.

At the time a servicer provides the written notice pursuant to § 1024.41 (c)(2)(iii), if the servicer lacks information necessary to determine the amount of a specific payment due during the program or plan (for example, because the borrower's interest rate will change to an unknown rate based on an index or because an escrow account computation year as defined in § 1024.17 (b) will end and the borrower's escrow payment might change), the servicer complies with the requirement to disclose the specific payment terms and duration of a short - term payment forbearance program or short - term repayment plan if the disclosures are based on the best information reasonably available to the servicer at the time the notice is provided and the written notice identifies which payment amounts may change, states that such payment amounts are estimates, and states the general reason that such payment amounts might change.

Using the empirical method by regressing historical portfolio returns of preferreds (represented by the S&P / TSX Preferred Share Index) to changes in interest rates, we found that preferreds in Canada have a historical duration estimate of -1.7.

GISS produces two estimates — the met station index (which does not cover a lot of the oceans), and a land - ocean index (which uses satellite ocean temperature changes in addition to the met stations).

By comparing modelled and observed changes in such indices, which include the global mean surface temperature, the land - ocean temperature contrast, the temperature contrast between the NH and SH, the mean magnitude of the annual cycle in temperature over land and the mean meridional temperature gradient in the NH mid-latitudes, Braganza et al. (2004) estimate that anthropogenic forcing accounts for almost all of the warming observed between 1946 and 1995 whereas warming between 1896 and 1945 is explained by a combination of anthropogenic and natural forcing and internal variability.

The Palmer Drought Severity Index, which is a measure of soil moisture using precipitation measurements and rough estimates of changes in evaporation, has shown that from 1900 to 2002, the Sahel region of Africa has been experiencing harsher drought conditions.

In a sensitivity analysis, we found that calculating absolute runoff based on the low (r = 0.66) and high values (r = 0.74) of this index changed the estimated increase from treatments by only 1 — 2 percentage points.

An index used in many climate change detection studies is global mean surface temperature, either as estimated from the instrumental record of the last 140 years, or from palaeo - reconstructions.

NAR reviewed data on homeownership rates1, changes in single - family median home prices and a measure of inequality (the Gini Index) between 2010 and 2013 to estimate wealth and income inequality in 100 of the largest metropolitan statistical areas2 across the U.S.