Sentences with phrase «for model assumptions»

Not exact matches

Even when two valuators do agree on the methodology, they may vary on the assumptions used in that model and then arrive at very different values for the firm.

It's worth noting that the binomial model for the number of winners has an extra assumption: that lottery players are choosing their numbers at random.

The model on which it was based is a marvel of restrictive assumptions: an economy that is closed to trade, expectations about inflation that are essentially myopic, interest rates that are largely impervious to the demand for credit and investment that is largely impervious to interest rates.

Using our interactive models, we find that using our $ 43 target as a take - out price, fairly conservative deal structures and synergy assumptions could result in an accretive deal for direct peers or regional banks, although given the more obvious scale synergies possible with peers the accretion potential would seem higher for that group.

The problem is when investors adopt theories and models that embed the most optimistic assumptions possible, run contrary to historical evidence, or embed subtle peculiarities that actually drive the results (see, for example, the «novel valuation measures» section of The Diva is Already Singing).

I think Joan has explained repeatedly what we see as the bands for growth, with a 10 - year model, with a stock price somewhere around — you know, in terms of assumptions that we've used — $ 85 stock price with another $ 25 to $ 30 of cash income.

For most economists, history is usually little more than a data sequence whose values are plugged into mathematical models — whose implicit assumptions too often these same economists fail to understand.

anything that is held as a store of value willingly can not be used to tie down the price level path (except via strong modeling assumption likes the last period exchange of real debt for real goods in the FTPL for example).

Using your key assumptions, business model and execution plan, develop a financial plan for the business which includes:

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the company's BlackBerry 10 smartphones; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the Company's BlackBerry 7 and 10 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

SUMMARY Mean - reversion has not performed well over the last few years Highly sensitive to model assumptions The strategy is an attractive addition for an equity - centric portfolio INTRODUCTION According to Benjamin Franklin death and taxes are the only two certainties in life.

Detailed study results, company - level analytics, and assumption models calibrated to this data are available for purchase by participating companies.

Develop modeling instincts so modelers know what assumptions are reasonable and likely to result in dependable results, and what parameter ranges are realistic to account for invariable deviations of reality from models.

The Dividend Discount Model requires two major assumptions — the return on the stock market for the next year and the growth rate for the stock's dividend.

The underlying assumption behind all the models in this chapter is that a congregation has an exciting possibility and responsibility to create a comprehensive marriage and family nurture program, beginning with remote preparation for marriage and extending through all the changing seasons of the life cycle of a family.

But for my purposes it is enough to say that the assumptions I have listed have many practical consequences when governments adopt policies oriented to economic growth on the basis of advice from neoliberal economists, or, indeed, many other economists who share this model.

In that role we share the thrill of discovery, and model the courage and humility necessary for letting go an old assumption in order to receive something new.

And for most of the last three - hundred - and - fifty years this effort to ground all human knowledge has focused upon the physical sciences; indeed, «since the period of Descartes and Hobbes, the assumption that scientific discourse was normal discourse and that all other discourse needed to be modeled upon it has been the standard motive for philosophizing.»

Churches have used both these models and a close examination of the assumptions upon which they are built shows they are not appropriate for church communities.

The first he called the «cognitive - propositionalist» model — an intellectual approach to theology that dominated for most of Christian history, named for its assumption that theology concerns intellectual assent to propositions which correspond with reality.

It's the societal assumption, the default, and because we have few models of healthy open relationships, monogamy «wins» even though it isn't always good for men or for women.

RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

As with most political science models, the Nomination Game is a tool for helping us think, but makes some assumptions that might not play out in the real world.

Sufficient information should be supplied to allow readers to judge whether any assumptions necessary for the validity of statistical approaches (e.g., data are normally distributed, survival data are consistent with proportional hazards in a Cox regression model) have been verified.

Because 2 - D models make simplified assumptions about some aspects of the flow, they can't account for changes in the flow, such as when the flood wave moves around large obstacles, changes rapidly in direction, or fully immerses bridge decks.

The assumption would be that climate models would behave differently for each of these regions.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

Most model scenarios make a big assumption: that rising agricultural productivity and vegetable - based diets will limit the need for new farmland.

Economists at North Carolina State University and Indiana University have found that the most widely used model for predicting how U.S. government spending affects gross domestic product (GDP) can be rigged using theoretical assumptions to control forecasts of how government spending will stimulate the economy.

How do you judge a model for the origin of life when its underlying assumptions are so uncertain?

The researchers developed atmospheric models of the equilibrium chemistry for a brown dwarf at 250 degrees Kelvin and calculated the resulting spectra under different assumptions, including cloudy and cloud - free models.

That finding should provide some comfort for cosmologists, whose standard model of the evolution of the universe rests on an assumption of such uniformity.

And it goes against base assumptions used in most computer models assume for cloud formations.

MOND researchers had tried to do this before, but for their models to work, they had to make an untested assumption about the relationship between a star's mass and the amount of light it puts out.

«You could take this same model or a different model and arrive at different cost numbers using a your own set of assumptions for «business as usual» or interests rates, for instance,» Supekar said.

For the range of differences in behavior that I uncover, so - called behavioral modeling assumptions are second order.»

Can I assume this is brand new information for you... since your claim is that it takes «ages» according to modeled assumptions?

«That assumption is so far entrenched in our thinking that global climate models simply don't allow for methane production in the presence of oxygen.

Moreover, our analysis does not depend on large, complex global climate models, the huge computer programs that are notorious for their hidden assumptions and adjustable parameters.

Here, we made the assumption of conditional independence for two reasons: (1) since our AN model had no correlated noise source, we wished to put the decoders from the three locations on an equal footing; (2) more importantly, ignoring noise correlations rendered inference far more tractable.

Our model demonstrates for the first time that neither an assumption of pre-existing diminished fertility in older women nor a requirement of benefits derived from older, non-reproducing women assisting younger women in rearing children is necessary to explain the origin of menopause.

If astronomers made the assumption that velocities observed for Milky Way stars or nebulae were due primarily to the rotation of the Milky Way and that the Milky Way had a simple rotation model, then they could use this model to determine two possible distances for each star or nebula.

Using theoretical and computational tools to model the complexity of such systems as a whole has been and will continue to be out of the question for the foreseeable future: simplifying assumptions must be introduced to render such systems computationally tractable.

The implicit assumption here is that the problem will turn out to be less serious than the models predict; thus, any carbon we have chosen to leave in the ground out of fear for the consequences of global warming will have gone uncombusted for nothing.

Mr. Head specializes in STAMP modeling, a form of economic analysis that has been criticized for its limitations and poor assumptions in the case of energy analysis.

Built in to this model are the assumptions of that population for government protection from floods.

The Hydrogen Analysis (H2A) production models provide transparent reporting of detailed process design assumptions and a consistent cost analysis methodology for the production of hydrogen at central and distributed (forecourt / filling - station) facilities.

«Climate models can easily make assumptions about reductions in future greenhouse gas emissions and project the implications, but they do this with no rational basis for human responses,» Gross said.

February 22, 2017 IEPR Commissioner Workshop on Data Inputs and Assumptions for IEPR Modeling and Forecasting Activities