Sentences with phrase «extreme deviations from»

The reason why valuations are so tightly correlated with 10 - 12 year returns is that extreme deviations from historical norms tend to wash out over that horizon, and because interest rate fluctuations have a much less durable impact on market valuations than investors imagine.

The jury also awarded one quarter million dollars in punitive damages because of the companies extreme deviation from reasonable safety standards.

Not exact matches

Sudden deviations from this pattern or extreme measurements may indicate a problem with taking in or absorbing nutrients, an illness, or a developmental problem.

If the current change is more extreme than any change prior (fall back on statistics and deviation from the mean) then I'll be concerned.

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

Be aware that deviation from standard tends to represent extremes - the very worst breeders, and some of the very best.

Even if you leave climate science completely out of it and just measure extreme temperatures, the statistical record of global temperatures shows that three - standard deviation events have increased from 0.25 % of the time (from 1951 - 1980) to 10 % of the time now.

Carbon emissions during this century will essentially determine the magnitude of eventual impacts and whether the Anthropocene is a short - term, relatively minor change from the current climate or an extreme deviation that lasts thousands of years.»

For our third hypothesis, following Lerchl [16], [18], we tested whether monthly ambient temperatures, or deviations from those seasonal patterns (i.e. extreme temperatures), were positively related to the monthly proportion of male births over the period 1980 — 2009.

You don't compare the absolute numbers to evaluate equivalency of (or lack of) extreme events across seasons, you compare the deviations from the relevant seasonal means.

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

In my experience as a family law lawyer, however, it has seemed to me that the bell curve modeling the impact of legislation on my clients has perhaps a higher standard of deviation than the norm, giving the bell curve a greater population at the extremes and thus fatter tails than suggested by the normal distribution; in other words, my impression is that quite a bit more than 5 % of separating couples experience an unfair or very unfair result from the application of family law legislation.

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.»

Deviation from normal behavior such as fits of rage, mood swings, lying and stealing from peers and parents usually follow, and the affected individual may even turn violent in extreme cases as well.