Sentences with phrase «explained by a number of factors»

Stocks with an abnormally high yield may be explained by a number of factors.

This could be explained by a number of factors, among them that smartphones are now larger and faster, while laptops are thinner and lighter than they used to.

This can be explained by a number of factors, such as less effective treatment and poor clinical decisions, but a principal cause is the lack of regular access to primary health care.

Not exact matches

The problem, as I noted years ago (e.g. Law of Large Numbers), is that «before looking at advisory sentiment, we have to factor out the portion that is explained simply by past market movements.

Whitehead's description of «importance» as a»... fundamental notion not to be fully explained by any reference to a finite number of other factors» (MT 8), suggests that it permeates all levels and types of existence.

As we have explained elsewhere, the degree of competition in the system for the election of committee chairs and members is limited by a number of factors that inhibit the potentially transformative effect of the 2010 reforms — including the absence of frontbenchers from candidacy and electorate, the fact that candidates from opposing parties can not compete against one another, and the large number of uncontested chairs.

While facial complexity was related to social variables, such as group size and the number of closely related species in the same habitat, facial pigmentation was best explained by ecological and spatial factors.

«The discordant twin design minimizes a number of potentially confounding factors that may explain the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use by «controlling» for differences on variables [such as] socioeconomic differences or family factors that, if excluded, could cloud the interpretation of findings.»

Before giving the drill, explain to students that to find the product of two numbers where one of the factors is 10, simply add a zero to the number being multiplied by 10 to get your product.

The problem, as I noted years ago (e.g. Law of Large Numbers), is that «before looking at advisory sentiment, we have to factor out the portion that is explained simply by past market movements.

The article explains that every game review experience differs because every reviewer is influenced by a number of experiential and intuitive factors that dictate judgment, and no two reviewers will ever judge a game in the same way.

While economic and demographic factors have no doubt contributed to observed increases in losses, 346 these factors do not fully explain the upward trend in costs or numbers of events.344, 347 For example, during the time period covered in the figure to the right, population increased by a factor of 1.3 while losses increased by a factor of 15 to 20 in inflation - corrected dollars.

, according to NASA scientists: «Coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends» — Excuse number 10 for global warming «pause» or «standstill» — NASA's Gavin Schmidt & colleagues finds «that a combination of factors, by coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends in the real world after about 1992» — Latest excuse for global temperature standstill mocked by skeptics: «Apparently, if you go back and rework all the forcings, taking into account new data estimates (add half a bottle of post-hoc figures) and «reanalyses» of old data (add a tablespoon of computer simulation) you can bridge the gap and explain away the pause.»

LSAC provides some correlative material, but more objective findings by David Thomas only demonstrate a weak link which can be explained by a number of other factors.

The Hesa survey did not break down its results by gender and industry destination to explain the wage gap, but one factor may be the larger number of women earning degrees: 172,000 female first - degree earners were recorded, or 57 % of the total, compared with 129,000 males.

Using a summary score of number of CD symptoms, structural equation modelling was used to investigate whether mean level and variation in CD increased with more recent cohorts, and whether any increase in variance could be explained by familial or non-familial factors.