Sentences with phrase «failing as a predictor»

Stuber, N., M. Ponater, and R. Sausen, 2005: Why radiative forcing might fail as a predictor of climate change.

With beta failing as a predictor of stock returns, academics started casting around for other factors that might explain why some groups of stocks perform better than others.

Not exact matches

It is those errors in the line as a game predictor that account for the fact that year in and year out the Vegas casinos fail to hold their full 4.5 % of the drop in sprots betting, and that the numbers indicate that the general public consistently wins between 51 % and 52 % of the time, and sometimes as much as 53 %, with all bookmaker profits coming from sucker bets such as teasers, parlays, point buying, and parlay cards.

Thus, the authors overemphasise the importance of funding by failing to stress that other factors, such as the size of the area surveyed, the number of vehicles used and even whether the ban was in force or not, were also statistically significant predictors of the number of elephant carcasses found.

So varied are state standards that the relative rigor of a state's proficiency definition is a better predictor of the percentage of schools said to be «failing» (not making AYP) than the overall quality of student performance in the state, as estimated by average NAEP scores.

Moreover, failing a sixth - grade math course was a better predictor of failure to graduate than either a student's race or status as an English Language Learner.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Marriage expert John Gottman, Ph.D, identified failed bids — that moment when a person seeks the attention of their partner, and the partner does not respond or mis - responds — as a key predictor of divorce.

Some trials include co-occurring mental health problems as a predictor of intervention effects, but predictor analyses fail to correct for change in the control condition and can lead to misleading results (e.g., see Halldorsdottir and Ollendick 2016, for a comparison of predictor and moderator analysis).