«A «failure of diversification» during the global financial crisis has prompted wider use of
factor analysis across portfolios and reduced reliance on simplistic asset allocation measures.
Not exact matches
Their
analysis involves (1) estimating the
factor characteristics of each stock in a broad index; (2) aggregating the characteristics
across all stocks in the index; and (3) matching aggregated characteristics to a mimicking portfolio of five indexes representing value, size, quality, momentum and low volatility styles, adjusted for estimated expense ratios.
We defined OL as delayed if it occurred after 72 h and used chi - square
analysis to examine its association with potential risk
factors across 6 dimensions: 1) prenatal characteristics, 2) maternal anthropometric characteristics, 3) labor and delivery experience, 4) newborn characteristics, 5) maternal postpartum
factors, and 6) infant feeding variables.
Professor Cyrus Cooper, Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, added: «This study forms part of a larger programme of work addressing risk
factors for fracture
across the lifecourse, and demonstrates the importance of the University of Southampton and MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit in leading large, UK wide
analyses on the internationally leading UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink dataset.
Dr Larkin said: «Results from our large
analysis of pre-defined sub-groups of patients with advanced melanoma provide evidence that suggests the combination of the two drugs consistently improves progression - free survival
across a range of sub-groups, including patients with poor prognostic
factors, when compared with either nivolumab or ipilimumab alone.»
Summary estimates were calculated using a general variance - based method (random - effects model) with 95 % CIs.19 Because the potential confounders considered in multivariate
analyses vary
across studies, we used the parameter estimates in the most complex model, which typically include demographic, lifestyle, and dietary
factors.
This meta -
analysis of studies of high - quality afterschool programs
across the country illustrates the academic, behavioral, and other gains for students and their families and explains the
factors that advance their success.
Some
analyses involving school
factors were based on the school - level scores (e.g., school - level ratings, composite school effectiveness scores that had been summed
across grade level) for each of the 14 schools.
Beam offers historical background and keen
analysis of the
factors shaping foster - care policies in this moving look at a system charged with caring for nearly half a million children
across the U.S.
Borrowers in red and blue states have different experiences with student debt.It's easy to pinpoint the
factors that cause people to default on their student loans.Read Forbes» in - depth
analysis: Student Debt Loans And Defaults Differ... [Read more...] about Student Debt Loans and Defaults Varies
Across America
We can use
factor analysis to identify the 2 primary axes that maximize the variance
across these game titles.
The
factor analysis packed a lot into our axes, but in surfacing these two underlying spectrums in the Open World genre, it is essentially letting us see how these games vary
across 9 motivations all at the same time.
Considering these
factors, it is very difficult to create a national gridded temperature
analysis that is comparable
across the colonial and post-federation periods.
The statistical
analyses (Table FE3) indicated that: (1) there are statistically significant differences in carbon dioxide emission
factors across both coal rank and State of origin; (2) coal rank and State of origin each explain approximately 80 percent of the variation in carbon dioxide emission
factors; and (3) State of origin combined with coal rank is a slightly more powerful explanatory variable than either coal rank or State of origin alone.
Meta -
analysis reviews show
across studies that a low - carbohydrate diet improves markers of cardiovascular and type 2 diabetes risk
factors.
A confirmatory
factor analysis was run to examine if the anticipated
factor structure of the items was retained
across the larger pool of items and constructs, and
across the wider age span of children.
Studies need to employ multi-group confirmatory
factor analyses and differential item functioning to test whether measurement models are equivalent
across subgroups (e.g., gender) and whether individual items or scales are biased against certain subgroups.
In conclusion, Exploratory
Factor Analyses from data in Study 1 indicated support for five
factors: social consequences; to include concerns regarding how parents, friends, classmates and teachers may view test performance; item types; to include items related to anxiety
across item formats; and temporal aspects of anxiety; that is how stress is felt before, during, and after an exam.
Path
analysis revealed that after controlling for clustering and all
factors restricted to being equal
across the time points, programme fidelity had a significant impact on the Emotional Literacy subscale scores at post-intervention: self - awareness: -LSB-(Estimate = 0.025, SE = 0.006, C.R. = 4.38, P < 0.001), Std Eff = 0.087]; self - regulation: -LSB-(Estimate = 0.024, SE = 0.006, C.R. = 4.04, P < 0.001), Std Eff = 0.08]; motivation: -LSB-(Estimate = 0.022, SE = 0.006, C.R. = 3.73, P < 0.001), Std Eff = 0.075] and social skills -LSB-(Estimate = 0.022, SE = 0.005, C.R. = 4.02, P < 0.001), Std Eff = 0.081].
Multiple group confirmatory
factor analyses were performed in order to elucidate MI
across a variety of occupational groups.
The Sequencing in Child Well - Being study is a meta -
analysis of longitudinal studies from
across the globe that compare the influence of one child well - being
factor on another.
Application of confirmatory
factor analysis to the study of self - concept: First and higher order
factor models and their invariance
across groups
Group - based trajectory modeling
analyses conditional on risk and protective
factors identified four trajectories of depressive symptoms
across adolescence: moderate stable (MS; 54.57 % of the sample), low stable (LS; 27.16 %), moderate increasing (MI; 11.30 %), and high declining (HD; 6.97 %).
Sequential multi-group
analyses established the full scalar invariance, as
factor loadings and
factor intercepts were invariant
across the male and female groups.
Factorial invariance
analyses tested whether item -
factor loadings and threshold values differed significantly
across time.
Multigroup
analysis provided evidence of
factor invariance
across gender.
Office market
analysis needs to identify and examine the exogenous
factors that determine variations in the normal vacancy rate and implicit equilibrium rent
across local markets and through time, especially when analyzing several office markets for comparison and investment purposes.
Office market
analysis aiming at guiding property investors wishing to invest nationally, should also examine the exogenous
factors that determine cross-sectional differences in equilibrium office rents
across metropolitan markets.