The phrase
"historical mean" refers to the average or typical value of a certain measurement or data over a period of time in the past. It helps to understand the usual value or trend by looking at past observations.
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The artist's use of these materials in his two - dimensional work stems primarily from formal concerns, as he explores the aesthetic qualities and complex
historical meaning behind this medium.
The long term
historical mean of 16.5 would imply a annual real return on equities of 6.5 % over the next 20 years.
Historical means from first record through 2005, while recent is after 2005 (Bekkerman and Weaver forthcoming).
Michael Gerson's latest column bemoans the death of
historical meaning in our personal romantic narrative.
Yet to those who participated in or benefited from the wrestling
with historical meaning and the concept of God, there seems no reason to forget what was learned.
Western Christendom at the turn of the first millennium, however, may have been the first society to
give historical meaning to «progress» by undertaking great social enterprises terminating only at a horizon of unguessable distance.
Statistical Returns - Simulates future returns for portfolio assets based on each
assets historical mean and standard deviation, and the correlation of the assets.
Yet Tate Britain's title has a
precise historical meaning: it focuses on a moment of rapid social change and creative awakening; a time when the term «queer» was in increasing, if covert, use.
It is well known that the reformers focused on the literal, grammatical, and
historical meaning of the text, an emphasis found already in the early church in St. Jerome and reinforced during the Middle Ages by Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Lyra.
b shows regions that have experienced changes in the frequency of long fire weather seasons (> 1σ
above historical mean) during the second half of the study period (1996 — 2013) compared with the number of events observed during the first half (1979 — 1996).
We did not detect any significant shifts from
historical means in population - level tissue stable isotope values.
Throughout the game, players discover and watch short interviews with members of the Iñpuiaq community that explain the cultural and
historical meaning behind various gameplay elements.
But as behavioural economist Richard Thaler reminded me recently in the pages of his latest book, asset prices inevitably revert to
their historical mean.
Today, companies are trading at between five and eight times EV / EBITDA, which is lower than
the historical mean.
This corrected only to go back up to 13.4 x in 2013 and then reverted back to 4x — a little bit below
the historical mean.
The historical mean and median S&P 500 P / E multiple is around 15X.
Investors worried about valuations reverting to
historical means are assuming that the global economy returns to a pre-crisis state, one that now looks confined to the history books, we believe.
Low discount rates suggest that asset valuations should not fall back to
historical means.
We do not see equity valuation metrics falling back to
historical means in an environment where earnings are staging a sustained recovery and long - term rates are low.
No one knows if interest rates will ever reach double digits again, but markets do tend to revert to
their historical mean.
This is why we do not expect equity valuation multiples to revert to
historical means.
The words «record valuation» were no doubt included — words that are now so commonplace that
their historical meaning is fading.
Thus no event can realize the full potential of any ideal or group of ideals, and still less the full potential of antecedent occasions from which
their historical meaning was derived.
But things will start to change when we insist upon seeing the human person as the focal point of historical inquiry, the cynosure of
historical meaning, the fleetingly visible figure to be sought in history's lavish carpet.
This means that every preacher has the job of building bridges of understanding between
the historical meaning of traditional words and the contemporary situation or symbol in which the same meaning is imbedded.
This approach's disadvantage is that it strips the text of
any historical meaning.
By extending the divine personhood to us through physical, social and
historical means, God elected a mediated rather than an immediate mode of self - expression.
To make this clear, future posts will look at some of
the historical meaning and Scriptural passages which indicate the symbolic significance of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and what they would have meant in the days of Jesus and early church.
She admits that the sort of things most likely to be important to Christians, such as Jesus» agony in the garden and his «demeanor» during the crucifixion, are not likely to be substantiated by
historical means.
Yet if the words and events of the Gospel narratives are to have more than
a historical meaning, subject to the rules of historical criticism, they also must be read as sanctifying symbols that religiously address today's believer.
While one may agree that interpretation is not limited to understanding the words of Scripture in their historical context, it seems impossible to divorce
the historical meaning from meanings we may discover within our own cultural setting.
Their ancient grammar is still valid, even if most churchgoers today are ignorant of
its historical meanings.
The inescapable task of the church is to find
the historical means of witnessing to the living truth of the apostolic faith.
Although this concept has
a historical meaning, it is also a scapegoat and a fit - all term.
The winner - take - all method is not entitled to any special deference based on history or
the historical meaning of the words in the U.S. Constitution.